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40 per 100,000 people per year [2] Status epilepticus ( SE ), or status seizure, is a medical condition consisting of a single seizure lasting more than 5 minutes, or 2 or more seizures within a 5-minute period without the person returning to normal between them. [3] [1] Previous definitions used a 30-minute time limit. [2]
320.4 * Tuberculous meningitis ( 013.0 †) 320.5 * Meningococcal meningitis ( 036.0 †) 320.7 * Meningitis in other bacterial diseases classified elsewhere. 320.8 Meningitis due to other specified bacteria. 320.9 Meningitis due to unspecified bacterium. 321 * Meningitis due to other organisms.
A convulsion is a medical condition where the body muscles contract and relax rapidly and repeatedly, resulting in uncontrolled shaking. [1] Because epileptic seizures typically include convulsions, the term convulsion is often used as a synonym for seizure. [1] However, not all epileptic seizures result in convulsions, and not all convulsions ...
This is a shortened version of the sixteenth chapter of the ICD-9: Symptoms, Signs and Ill-defined Conditions. It covers ICD codes 780 to 799 . The full chapter can be found on pages 455 to 471 of Volume 1, which contains all (sub)categories of the ICD-9.
Generalized epilepsy is a form of epilepsy characterised by generalised seizures with no apparent cause. [1] Generalized seizures, as opposed to focal seizures, are a type of seizure that impairs consciousness and distorts the electrical activity of the whole or a larger portion of the brain (which can be seen, for example, on ...
E973 Injury due to legal intervention by blunt object; E974 Injury due to legal intervention by cutting and piercing instrument; E975 Injury due to legal intervention by other specified means; E976 Injury due to legal intervention by unspecified means; E977 Late effects of injuries due to legal intervention; E978 Legal execution (E979) Terrorism
Idiopathic generalized epilepsy. Idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) is a group of epileptic disorders that are believed to have a strong underlying genetic basis. IGE is considered a subgroup of Genetic Generalized Epilepsy (GGE). [1] Patients with an IGE subtype are typically otherwise normal and have no structural brain abnormalities.
The ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) is a US system of medical classification used for procedural coding.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency responsible for maintaining the inpatient procedure code set in the U.S., contracted with 3M Health Information Systems in 1995 to design and then develop a procedure classification system to replace Volume 3 of ICD-9-CM.