Intravenous Push Levetiracetam Safety in a Neuro-Spine ICU

Intravenous Push Levetiracetam Safety in a Neuro-Spine ICU

Administration of levetiracetam doses up to 2000 mg via IVP is a safe method of administration that results in a reduction of time to medication administration and a reduction of benzodiazepine use. Of the 2,055 hospital-wide... read more

Fixing Hypernatremia: Acting Fast or Acting Slow?

Fixing Hypernatremia: Acting Fast or Acting Slow?

This is the largest adult cohort study focusing on the neurologic complications and mortality after hypernatremia correction in critically ill adults. There wasn't any evidence that rapid correction of hypernatremia was... read more

Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus

Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus

The only comprehensive source of information on this frequently misdiagnosed problem, with information critical for physicians, ER and ICU doctors, and psychiatrists. An under-recognized condition that can potentially... read more

Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus: Overlooked and Undertreated

Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus: Overlooked and Undertreated

Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is characterized by persistent change in mental status from baseline lasting more than 5 minutes, generally with epileptiform activity seen on EEG monitoring and subtle or no motor... read more

Repeated Ambulance Use is Associated with Chronic Diseases

Repeated Ambulance Use is Associated with Chronic Diseases

There is a growing demand for emergency medical services (EMS) and patients are repeatedly transported by ambulance services. For many patients, especially those with chronic disease, there may be better ways of delivering... read more

ICU Survivors Have a Substantial Higher Risk of Developing New Chronic Conditions Compared to a Population-Based Control Group

ICU Survivors Have a Substantial Higher Risk of Developing New Chronic Conditions Compared to a Population-Based Control Group

ICU patients have more chronic conditions during the year before ICU admission compared with a population-based control group and a five times higher odds on developing one or more new chronic conditions compared with the... read more

Device Delivers Drugs to the Brain to Stop Seizures

Device Delivers Drugs to the Brain to Stop Seizures

The failure of systemic drug treatments to address numerous neurological disorders has spurred the development of alternative approaches that attempt localized treatment. These localized treatments focus therapy on the region... read more

Fibromyalgia as marker for seizures less reliable

Fibromyalgia as marker for seizures less reliable

The specificity of fibromyalgia as a marker for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures is less reliable than previously described, results from a large analysis showed. Fibromyalgia may not be as reliable a clinical indicator... read more

FDA Approves Carnexiv Injection for Seizures

FDA Approves Carnexiv Injection for Seizures

The FDA has approved Carnexiv (carbamazepine) injection as a short-term replacement therapy for oral carbamazepine formulations for adults with certain seizure types.... read more