Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome treated successfully with enteral lorazepam as a substitute for intravenous midazolam as weaning drug

• Main Authors: Amarlok Kumar (Author), Ravi Sharma (Author), Preeti Kharwas (Author), Anupam Chaturvedi (Author), Vivek Jain (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES) is an acute-onset epilepsy syndrome usually refractory to conventional antiepileptics and immunomodulation. Here, we report an adolescent male child whose seizures were refractory to multiple anticonvulsants, high-dose phenobarbitone, and ketogenic...