Diazepam Sensitivity and Intractable Seizures

Abstract

The benzodiazepine sensitivity test, an intravenous bolus of diazepam (0.2 mg/kg) under EEG control, was used in 40 children with intractable seizure disorders treated in the Paediatric Neurology Service and the Dept Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh.

Keywords

• clinical neurophysiology
• atypical absences
• seizure disorder