[Evolution of the conditions for EEG recording in the diagnosis of brain death].

The authors trace the evolution of conditions of EEG recording parallel to the clinical criteria of certainty of the diagnosis of brain death, since the first definition of irreversible coma given by M. Goulon and P. Mollaret in 1959.

[Status epilepticus in the adult. Epidemiologic and clinical study in an intensive care unit].

The present study, conducted between January 1975 and June 1983, includes 282 adult patients admitted for status epilepticus (SE) in 2 intensive care units (3.5% of all admissions). In their great majority, i.

[Treatment of status epilepticus in the adult. Retrospective analysis of 192 cases treated in intensive care units].

The results of therapy have been analyzed in a series of 192 patients admitted for status epilepticus over 7 years in two intensive care units. Most (142 cases without any prior epilepsy) corresponded to secondary forms. In 2/3 of the cases, the patients were admitted because of failure of benzodiazepines and/or phenobarbitone.

[Myoclonus of toxic origin].

EEG, EMG and clinical correlates of myoclonus due to poisoning are reviewed. The authors propose a classification into two groups. I.