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| Foreword | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Status Epilepticus: History, Definition, Classification, And Epidemiology | |
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| Historical Overview | |
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| Definition and Classification of Status Epilepticus | |
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| Incidence and Causes of Status Epilepticus | |
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| Prognosis After a First Episode of Status Epilepticus | |
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| Epidemiology of Childhood Status Epilepticus | |
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| Status Epilepticus: Clinical Phenomenology | |
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| Generalized Convulsive Status Epilepticus | |
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| Simple and Complex Partial Status Epilepticus | |
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| Absence Status | |
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| The Two Faces of Electrographic Status Epilepticus: The Walking Wounded and the Ictally Comatose | |
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| Status Epilepticus in Infancy and Childhood | |
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| Nonconvulsive Status Eilepticus in Children: With Special Reference to Electrical Status Epilepticus During Slow-Wave Sleep | |
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| Status Epilepticus in the Neonate | |
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| Status Epilepticus: Biological Markers | |
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| Physiologic Responses to Status Epilepticus | |
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| Clinical Neuropathology in Convulsive Status Epilepticus | |
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| Neuron-Specific Enolase in Status Epilepticus | |
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| Brain Imaging in Status Epilepticus | |
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| Basic Mechanisms: Pathophysiology | |
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| Self-Sustaining Status Epilepticus | |
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| Pathophysiology of Seizure Circuitry in Status Epilepticus | |
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| Neuroanatomy of Status Epilepticus | |
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| Role of GABAA Receptors in Status Epilepticus | |
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| Physiologic Mechanisms of Inhibition and Status Epilepticus | |
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| Glutamate and Glutamate Receptors in Status Epilepticus | |
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| Metabotropic Receptors in Status Epilepticus | |
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| The Role of Adenosine in Status Epilepticus | |
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| Basic Mechanisms: Brain Damage | |
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| Excitotoxicity in Status Epilepticus | |
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| Seizure-Induced Damage in the Immature Brain: Overcoming the Burden of Proof | |
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| Metabolic and Circulatory Adaptations to Status Epilepticus in the Immature Brain | |
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| Excitotoxicity and Seizures in the Immature Brain | |
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| Age-Specific Mechanisms of Status Epilepticus | |
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| Developmental Differences in Seizure Susceptibility and Hippocampal Vulnerability: Molecular Correlates | |
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| Seizures and Neurotrophic Factor Expression | |
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| Behavioral Consequences of Status Epilepticus in the Immature Brain | |
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| Basic Mechanisms: Epileptogenesis | |
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| Late Consequences of Status Epilepticus | |
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| Epileptogenic Effects of Status Epilepticus | |
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| Hippocampal Reactive Synaptogenesis from Status Epilepticus | |
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| Therapeutic Principles | |
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| Neuroprotective Strategies in Status Epilepticus | |
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| Generalized Convulsive Status Epilepticus: Principles of Treatment | |
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| Therapeutic Attitudes and Therapeutic Algorithms | |
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| Approach to the Management of Neonatal Status Epilepticus | |
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| Management of Status Epilepticus in Infants and Children | |
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| Pharmacotherapy | |
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| Benzodiazepines for Initial Treatment of Status Epilepticus | |
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| Phenytoin in the Treatment of Status Epilepticus | |
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| Phenytoin and Fosphenytoin | |
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| Phenobarbital in the Treatment of Status Epilepticus | |
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| Valproate | |
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| Other Pharmacologic Therapy for Refractory Status Epilepticus | |
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| Therapeutic Management | |
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| Approaches to Treating Status Epilepticus Outside the Hospital | |
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| The Treatment of Status Epilepticus Patients in the Emergency Setting | |
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| Critical Care of the Status Epilepticus Patient | |
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| The Impact of Status Epilepticus on Health Care Delivery Systems: Quality of Care and Access | |
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| Status Epilepticus: The Future | |
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| Index | |