Treatment of SE is based on the age of the patient and the possible underlying etiology. Initial treatment should include a benzodiazepine (lorazepam 0.1 mg/kg or diazepam 0.5 mg/kg). Specimens for laboratory tests should be drawn early in the event of a prolonged seizure and geared toward the clinical presentation and age of the patient. If a seizure lasts longer than 10 minutes, phenobarbital...

With modern light anaesthesia the problem of awareness during surgery has defied analysis, because no physical sign reliably signals the conscious level. A test has been developed which entails direct communication with the patient at the end of surgery, noting the earliest moment after withdrawal of nitrous oxide at which he makes the appropriate response to a verbal request, the "time to corr...

A 60-year-old African-American man presented to the emergency department with malaise, fever, and mild shortness of breath. Following initial evaluation and application of supplemental oxygen, the patient was admitted to a step-down unit. Seventytwo hours following admission, his respiratory status declined, and he was transferred to the medical ICU. Following this transfer, endotracheal intuba...

AIM To compare the efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) with risperidone in the treatment of lorazepam non-responsive catatonia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Inpatients with non-affective catatonia (n= 18) non-responsive to at least five-day trial of lorazepam (6-8 mg/day) were randomised into two groups in a double blind randomised design. Written informed consent was obtained. Four were dro...

Objective: Benzodiazepines are a widely used class of medications for anxiety, depression, and insomnia. Despite their common use, concerns remain about memory problems with benzodiazepines. the growing financial social burden dementia, inconsistent results persist regarding association between benzodiazepines dementia. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate dementia in Korea. Methods: Diagnostic pres...