Rescue Medication in Children at Risk of Prolonged Convulsive Seizures

Abstract

Investigators at the Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, and other centers in the UK and Europe, explore the adequacy of treatment of children with prolonged convulsive seizures (defined as seizures lasting more than 5 min) occurring in school to prevent progression to status epilepticus and neurological morbidity.

Keywords

• prolonged convulsive seizures
• neurological morbidity
• rescue medication