This content is machine translated Cardiopulmonary resuscitation Forecast assessment More and more patients express that they do not want any therapeutic measures in case of foreseeable irreversible unconsciousness or severe permanent brain damage. Valid forecast parameters are needed for…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Care of epilepsy patients An EMU for the Epilepsy Center of Eastern Switzerland The Epilepsy Center of the Clinic for Neurology at the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen offers comprehensive medical care for epilepsy patients in Eastern Switzerland. Long-term EEGs can now also be…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Syncope or epilepsy? First epileptic seizure in adulthood 10% of all people experience a seizure once in their lifetime. The exact timing and symptomatic course of the seizure are very important in the workup. There are no laboratory…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated The AIDA antidepressant discontinuation study. Relapse prediction after discontinuation of antidepressants. Not all depressed patients in remission benefit from antidepressants in terms of relapse prevention. Many patients want to discontinue their antidepressant, in part because of unwanted side effects. Currently, there…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Brain death What is the basis for brain death diagnostics in Switzerland? According to Article 9 of the Transplantation Law, a person is dead when the function of the brain, including the brain stem, has irreversibly failed. In principle, brain death can…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Video session at the three-country meeting on epilepsy Contribution from Zurich wins Video recording of seizures with and without EEG is considered essential in epileptology and is firmly established. Diagnostics, research and didactics would be unthinkable without the recording possibilities, Prof. Peter…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Crossed cerebro-cerebellar diaschisis. DWI imaging in the diagnosis of status epilepticus Magnetic resonance imaging is a sensitive method for visualizing reversible and irreversible changes in brain tissue after epileptic seizures. The following case report specifically discusses diffusion imaging, which can visualize…
