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Status epilepticus is one of the true medical (neurological) emergencies. Convulsive as well as nonconvulsive status epilepticus can affect epileptic patients with essentially all forms of seizures from absence seizures to tonic–clonic seizures, and progressive myoclonic epilepsy in infants. It is a situation requiring fast and correct treatment, as the mortality rate is high. Various studies set the mortality rate as being from 10 to 30%, depending on treatment (Hauser 1990; Aicardi and Chevrie 1987).

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McCandless, D.W. (2012). Status Epilepticus. In: Epilepsy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0361-6_23

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