Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain 2005 5(4):118-121; doi:10.1093/bjaceaccp/mki032
Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain | Volume 5 Number 4 2005 © The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia [2005]. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org
Epilepsy in anaesthesia and intensive care
Andrew P Gratrix, MBChB FCARCSI, Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Intensive Care Unit, Pinderfields General Hospital, Aberford Road, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4DG
Simon M Enright, MBChB FRCA, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and Director of Intensive Care
Intensive Care Unit, Pinderfields General Hospital, Aberford Road, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4DG
Tel: 01924 212139, Fax: 01924 213752, E-mail: simon.enright{at}midyorks.nhs.uk (for correspondence)
Epilepsy is defined as recurrent (two or more) epileptic seizures unprovoked by any immediately identifiable cause. A seizure can be defined as the clinical manifestation of an abnormal and excessive discharge of neurones, which is seen as alteration of consciousness, motor, sensory or autonomic events. Epilepsy is relevant to the anaesthetist for several reasons, for example medication and drug interactions, postoperative seizures, and intensive care management of status epilepticus.

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