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American Family Physician
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Febrile Seizures: What You Should Know A patient guide: What are febrile seizures?... Who gets febrile seizures and why?... How can my doctor tell if my child has had a febrile seizure?... What can I expect?... etc.   |
American Family Physician
September 1, 2000
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A Practical Approach to Uncomplicated Seizures in Children Uncomplicated seizures and epilepsy are common in infants and children. Not all uncomplicated childhood seizures require neuroimaging or treatment... |
American Family Physician
January 15, 2003
Velez & Selwa |
Seizure Disorders in the Elderly Seizure disorders become increasingly common after the age of 60 years and can have a significant impact on functional status. The goal of antiepileptic drug therapy is to control seizures but preserve quality of life. |
American Family Physician
August 1, 2003
Sirven & Waterhouse |
Management of Status Epilepticus Physicians should rely on a standardized protocol for management of status epilepticus to improve care for this neurologic emergency. |
Nursing
September 1, 2007
Mary Unruh Fagley |
Taking Charge of Seizure Activity Learn what happens during a seizure when the brain's electric signals go awry and how you can help someone plagued by the disturbing effects. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2001
Michael Luszczak |
Evaluation and Management of Infants and Young Children with Fever Acute febrile illness in an infant or a young child is a common clinical scenario that can be a diagnostic challenge. The evaluation is guided by the history and physical examination, along with judiciously selected screening tests... |
American Family Physician
September 1, 2005
Alsaadi & Marquez |
Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures Often misdiagnosed and treated for epilepsy, these seizures are unique in that they do not have a neurologic origin. |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2001
Selim R. Benbadis |
Advances in the Treatment of Epilepsy Significant advances have been made in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy over the past decade... |
Nursing
February 2010
Daniel A. Hussar |
New Drugs 2010, PART 1 In this article, you'll learn about 16 new drugs. |
Nursing
November 2011
Jeanne Held-Warmkessel |
Taming Three High-Risk Chemotherapy Complications A review of three common chemotherapy-associated complications that can be serious enough to require hospitalization: febrile neutropenia, chemotherapy-related nephrotoxicity, and chemotherapy-related enterotoxicity. |
American Family Physician
October 15, 2000
Kenneth B. Roberts |
The AAP Practice Parameter on Urinary Tract Infections in Febrile Infants and Young Children The Committee on Quality Improvement of the American Academy of Pediatrics developed an evidence-based practice parameter on the diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of the initial urinary tract infection in febrile infants and young children... |
Nursing
November 2007
Matthews, Miller & Mott |
Getting Ahead of Acute Meningitis & Encephalitis Learn how to distinguish between these common central nervous system infections and respond appropriately. |
American Family Physician
December 1, 2006
Higdon & Higdon |
Treatment of Oncologic Emergencies Family physicians should be familiar with oncologic emergencies because treatment often is necessary before consultation with a subspecialist. |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2001 |
What Should I Know About Seizures and Epilepsy? What is a seizure, and what is epilepsy?... What causes epilepsy?... Who gets epilepsy?... Are all seizures the same?... How does the doctor find out I have epilepsy?... |
American Family Physician
February 15, 2007
Mark H. Ebell |
Point-of-Care Guides It is possible to predict the likelihood of bacterial meningitis in children with suspected meningitis. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2003
Lo Re & Gluckman |
Fever in the Returned Traveler With the rising popularity of international travel to exotic locations, family physicians are encountering more febrile patients who recently have visited tropical countries. |
American Family Physician
October 15, 2002
Martha J. Morrell |
Epilepsy in Women Epilepsy in women raises special reproductive and general health concerns. Seizure frequency and severity may change at puberty, over the menstrual cycle, with pregnancy, and at menopause. |
American Journal of Nursing
July 2008
Kiekkas et al. |
Physical Antipyresis in Critically Ill Adults Nurses use a variety of methods to cool critically ill patients, even though there are no guidelines for the treatment of temperature elevation in this population. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
November 1, 2013
Ben Comer |
Top Medical Innovations for 2014 At the conclusion of the Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovations Summit each year, 10 innovative technologies are unveiled before the audience, and designated as new and revolutionary tools for the treatment of disease and disability. |
Reactive Reports
July 2004
David Bradley |
Breaking the Cycle of Epilepsy in Women Researchers have made an important discovery about a form of epilepsy that affects women most severely during menstruation. The findings could lead to a new treatment based on manipulating levels of the hormone progesterone. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Virginia Hughes |
A New Approach to Predicting Epileptic Seizures Torrents of data produced by implanted microelectrodes could finally yield a prediction system |
