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In patients in the ICU who are on the inter-ictal continuum, how do you decide whether or not to treat for potential non-convulsive status epilepticus?

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Neurology · Allina Health Brain and Spine Institute

In those situations, you will have to take into account the whole clinical picture - what the etiology is (are we dealing with a structural injury and those periodic patterns may not resolve, and in those situations, your goal is not resolution of the EEG); if the concern is for an autoimmune etiolo...

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