hyperventilation/seizures

1. Introduction: Global cerebral ischaemic-reperfusion brain injury following cardiac arrest (CA) can lead to intracranial hypertension and, occasionally, acute brain swelling. Even small increases in brain volume due to edema can result in harmful increases in intracranial pressure due to the

Both sevoflurane and propofol are considered safe and potent anaesthetics and are used for induction or coinduction of general anaesthesia. During all stages of general anaesthesia, both agents may induce seizure-like movements or seizures (clinically manifested events and confirming

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective treatment for medication-resistant forms of depression, including major depressive disorder and mania. Therapeutic success of ECT is related to the duration and quality of Electroencephalogram (EEG) and motor seizures. Previous studies have

The study will include 30 patients at the age of 4-10 years old of both sexes. after signing an informed concent, every child, suspected of having absence seizures, will undergoe an EEG recording including a provocation of hyperventilation. The study will include two groups: 1. A group of 15

Hyperventilation is a very effective means of eliciting absence seizures in children with absence epilepsy. Worldwide EEG protocols for routine EEG recording include 3 minutes of hyperventilation. The whole EEG recording, including hyperventilation, is performed with the child lying down on a

The main goal of this phase 1 clinical trial was to evaluate the safety of an autologous mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) application as therapy for drug-resistant symptomatic epilepsy in a one-center study. It is well known that drug-resistant symptomatic epilepsy is a dramatically invalidating disorder

The aim of the study is the continuous non-invasive monitoring of - body temperature - respiratory rate - transcutaneous pCO2 - heart rate - pulsoxymetric SaO2 (arterial oxygen saturation) during a febrile illness - in children without febrile seizures and - in children who had suffered a febrile

NeuroMorfeo is a multicenter, randomized, open label, controlled trial, based on an equivalence design. Patients aged between 18 and 75 years, scheduled for a elective craniotomy for supratentorial lesion without signs of intracranial hypertension, in good physical state evaluated with the ASA

ECT Administration All patients will receive ECT administered using a Thymatron-System IV (Somatics, LLC , Lake Bluff, IL) ECT device, the same device used for our usual ECT. All patients will be monitored with continuous electrocardiogram (EKG) monitoring, pulse oximetry, and regular blood pressure

This study is an eight-week, randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel group, fixed dose trial comparing two doses of the alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionic acid (AMPA) receptor positive modulator, Org 24448, added to a stable dose of atypical antipsychotic medication in 135 patients

This is a 12 week ( 12 week treatment phase), dose ranging pilot study on the effectiveness of levetiracetam for the treatment of childhood absence epilepsy. It consists of 1 phase. The treatment phase where the optimal medication dose will be defined. Absence seizures are often brief and subtle

Childhood Absence Epilepsy (CAE) affects 2-11% of all children with epilepsy. CAE occurs most frequently in children between the ages of 4 and 10 years. Children with CAE have brief seizures (usually several seconds in duration) that typically involve staring and loss of awareness; twitching

Title: Progesterone Treatment of Blunt Traumatic Brain Injury Principal Investigator(s): Arthur Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H. Institution: Emory University Biostatistician: Vicki Hertzberg, Ph.D. Institution: Emory University Project phase or primary methodology: Phase II pilot, double blind, 4:1