Status Epilepticus

Any seizure lasting more than five minutes, or if you have multiple seizures happening within a short time frame where someone does not return to full consciousness in between, that results in something known as status epilepticus and is a major medical emergency. This is rare. It most often happens with generalized tonic clinic seizures. But it's also possible to have nonconvulsivestatus epilepticus. And that's I think really important where EEGs can be so integral in like figuring out what was going on because you might be having more seizures than you even have very obvious signs or symptoms of.

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