Target Audience
- Medical Interns, Residents, and critical care (ICU, ED, Anaesthetic) trainees.
- Nurses working in critical care environments (e.g. ICU, ED, neurosurgical and neurology wards).
- Medical students rotating through critical care specialties.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this module you should be able to:
- Define status epilepticus (SE)
- Recognise and effectively manage SE
- Know differential diagnoses
- Understand basic pathophysiology of seizures
- Know seizure types and a classification system
- Understand the pharmacology of commonly used anti-seizure medications (ASMs)
- Know more about common causes of SE
- Know the priorities during resuscitation of SE
- Understand the tiered management strategy of SE
- Know the difference between convulsive and non-convulsive SE
- Understand the basic of EEG interpretation
- Understand prognosis and outcomes from SE
