S1-3. Consideration of consciousness in terms of NCSE: From psychiatrists ’ point of view

Diagnosis and treatment of status epilepticus is needed when we see patients with epilepsy. International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) proposed a new definition of status epilepticus in 2015. Status epilepticus is categorized as convulsive or nonconvulsive. Non-convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) includes various type of clinical manifestations with different level of disturbance of consciousness. When we carefully observe patients with NCSE, we need to consider “consciousness”. A new definition of epileptic seizures which was proposed by ILAE in 2017 uses a term “awareness” instead of “consciousness” which was used in a traditional definition.
Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - Category: Neuroscience Authors: Source Type: research