Clinical Research on Out-of-Hospital Emergency Care

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Abstract
Status epilepticus is a series of successive grand mal seizures lasting minutes or even hours, without the recovery of normal consciousness. The resulting metabolic derangement of cells, depletion of the oxygen and glucose necessary for normal functioning, and disruption of ion transport across cell membranes injure neurons and damage the brain.1 The long-term complications include focal neurologic deficits, epilepsy, and encephalopathy. The longer an episode of status epilepticus lasts, the greater the risk and extent of these serious sequelae.2 Although status epilepticus has diverse causes (e.g., medication or alcohol withdrawal, preexisting epilepsy, head injury, stroke, intracranial mass, meningitis, and drug . . .