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CanadiEM aims to improve emergency care in Canada by building an online community of practice for healthcare practitioners and providing them with high quality, freely available educational resources. The CanadiEM Podcast brings you cutting edge clinical topics on the National Rounds Series and delves into the struggles that doctors face on the Physicians as Humans Series.

Apr 25, 2016

This episode covers Chapter 18 of Rosen's Emergency Medicine.

Episode Overview:

  1. Define status epilepticus
  2. List the doses of common medications used for status epilepticus
  3. List 10 differential diagnoses for seizures
  4. List 10 indications for head CT in new-onset seizure

Wisecracks:

  1. How long does a driver in British Columbia require their driver’s license be suspended after a seizure?
  2. What are the most common causes of status epilepticus?
  3. What are the “cannot miss” causes of seizure?