Prolonged confusional states following convulsive seizures may be due to persistent nonconvulsive status epilepticus, which can be diagnosed by EEG.
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May support EEG in prolonged postictal confusion to exclude nonconvulsive status; hypothesis-generating, requiring prospective validation before practice change.
Fagan et al. (1990) studied this question.
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