5-Minute Emergency Consult
Seizure, Pediatric
To view the entire topic, please log in or purchase a subscription.
Emergency Central is a collection of disease, drug, and test information including 5-Minute Emergency Medicine Consult, Davis’s Drug, McGraw-Hill Medical’s Diagnosaurus®, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, and MEDLINE Journals created for emergency medicine professionals. Explore these free sample topics:
-- The first section of this topic is shown below --
Basics
Description
Sudden, abnormal discharges of neurons resulting in a change in behavior or function
Etiology
- Febrile seizures
- Infection
- Idiopathic
- Trauma
- Toxicologic:
- Ingestion
- Drug action
- Drug withdrawal
- Metabolic:
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypocalcemia
- Hypo/hypernatremia
- Inborn errors of metabolism
- Perinatal hypoxia
- Intracranial hemorrhage
- CNS structural anomaly or malformation
- Degenerative disease
- Psychogenic
- Ischemia
- Mass lesion
-- To view the remaining sections of this topic, please log in or purchase a subscription --
Basics
Description
Sudden, abnormal discharges of neurons resulting in a change in behavior or function
Etiology
- Febrile seizures
- Infection
- Idiopathic
- Trauma
- Toxicologic:
- Ingestion
- Drug action
- Drug withdrawal
- Metabolic:
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypocalcemia
- Hypo/hypernatremia
- Inborn errors of metabolism
- Perinatal hypoxia
- Intracranial hemorrhage
- CNS structural anomaly or malformation
- Degenerative disease
- Psychogenic
- Ischemia
- Mass lesion
There's more to see -- the rest of this topic is available only to subscribers.
