Trivia

[Poety]

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What condition gets worse if a patient is in status and you give anticonvulsants as the therapy?



Stay tuned for the answer - unless some smarty pants here know it 🙂

I think we should make this a trivia board - OPD - ITS NOT THAT QUIET IN HERE AND DOC QUIT DRINKING

 

[OldPsychDoc]

What condition gets worse if a patient is in status and you give anticonvulsants as the therapy?



Stay tuned for the answer - unless some smarty pants here know it 🙂

I think we should make this a trivia board - OPD - ITS NOT THAT QUIET IN HERE AND DOC QUIT DRINKING

I can't drink this week. I'm on call.
Yes, ALL WEEK.
But other than rounding on all the new admits Saturday it's NOT that big a deal... 😴

 

[BKN]

What condition gets worse if a patient is in status and you give anticonvulsants as the therapy?

Isoniazid OD.
therapy: pyridoxine
B

 

[Anasazi23]

Depends on the type of status and the drug, really. Virtually all the antiepileptics have reports of worsening or inducing seizure activity if the wrong drug is given for the wrong seizure type.

i.e. Polypharmacy, a strategy often used in seizure control, has also revealed that many seizure disorders worsen with the addition of an additional agent.
Some examples:

Phenobarb worsens seizures in children with Lennox Gastaut syndrome.
Tegretol is classic for worsening status episodes.
Trileptal has a similar reaction to above.

Many more....

There should be stuff on PubMed.