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Treatments used during intensive care admission. Anti-seizure medication and anesthetic agents used during intensive care unit admission.
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He was treated in the intensive care unit with intravenous valproate loading, followed by intubation and sedation with midazolam, propofol and later thiopental, (Fig. 1) in order to cause burst-suppression on EEG.
Maximum daily Glasgow Coma Score and average ketone concentration during intensive care admission. The maximum Glasgow Coma Score (blue) achieved each day during intensive care admission displayed against the average ketone concentration (red).
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SRSE a classic ketogenic diet (KD) was initiated. Seven days later he reached a state of ketosis; a mean ketone concentration >= 2 mmol/L (Fig. 2) and a reduction in seizure frequency was seen clinically and confirmed using EEG.