Research Shows Faster Method of Delivering Drugs to Seizure Patients

Quick medical intervention is critical to a person experiencing a prolonged convulsive seizure. With every passing minute, the seizure becomes harder to stop, and can place the patient at risk of brain damage and death. This is why paramedics are trained to administer anticonvulsive medications, often intravenously, as soon as possible, before arriving at the hospital.

A major clinical trial now shows that an even faster method, which involves injecting drugs into the thigh muscle using an autoinjector (similar to a pre-loaded syringe), is just as safe and more effective. For more information, click here to read the full release.