Ketamine and Levetiracetam for Seizures in Children
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This study tests whether two medicines, ketamine (a sleep medicine) and levetiracetam (a seizure medicine), work better than a standard treatment for stopping long-lasting seizures in children when the first rescue medicine doesn't work.
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Who can take part
- Your child must be between 1 and 16 years old.
- They must have a long-lasting seizure (over 5 minutes) that makes their whole body shake and they don't fully wake up between seizures.
- The seizure must continue even after getting a rescue medicine (like Valium or Ativan) in the emergency room.
- Your child cannot have already received other seizure medicines for this episode.
- They must not be on a breathing tube (intubated) before joining the study.
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