Electroencephalographic activation with methohexital in an epileptic population
Aung, M.H.
Diseases of the Nervous System 35(5): 246-248
1974
ISSN/ISBN: 0012-3714 PMID: 17894109 Document Number: 79464
Forty-one epileptics with normal or nonspecific EEG changes were subjected to methohexital and pentylenetetrazol activations (Group I). Fifteen epileptic patients with specific epileptiform discharges were subjected to methohexital activation procedures (Group II). The present study showed that, though it is a safe agent, methohexital is not an effective electroencephalographic activator for the epileptic population. In this study, it activated only 7% of the epileptics with normal records or minimal and nonspecific EEG abnormalities and it activated only 33.3% of epileptics who had previously demonstrated a specific paroxysmal epileptiform discharge in a routine recording.