TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Complex Partial Status Epilepticus A1 - Fountain, Nathan B. A2 - Sirven, Joseph I. A2 - Stern, John M. PY - 2011 T2 - Atlas of Video-EEG Monitoring AB - Status epilepticus (SE) is the term given to prolonged seizure activity that is of sufficient duration to produce a “fixed and lasting epileptic condition” or neuronal injury and has a substantially increased risk of death.1 SE has been formally defined as seizures lasting longer than 30 minutes. The most common and easily understood form is generalized convulsive status epilepticus (GCSE), which is characterized by continuous or recurrent convulsive motor seizures of more than 30 minutes' duration (see Chapter 24). All other forms are grouped under the rubric of nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE). NCSE is fundamentally divided into complex partial status epilepticus (CPSE) and absence status epilepticus (a form of generalized status epilepticus; see Chapter 26). This chapter focuses on CPSE, but it includes some discussion of absence SE because of inevitable overlap. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1103050277 ER -