Authors

Sadanandavally Ratnaswamy Chandra^a, Ashraf Ali^b, Krishnan Suresh^b, Devadas Krishnadas^b, P Chithra^b, K A Kabeer^b
aDepartment of Neurology, NIMHANS, Bangalore, Karnataka
^bIndian Medical Association, Anayara PO, Trivandrum

Abstract

Status epilepticus is a common neurological emergency. We report a fifty year old male who presented in status epilepticus with twenty five episodes per day which lasted for four days. This was controlled by using two hundred mg of zolpidem per day, which was subsequently slowly weaned off.

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