Seizure, Deep Sleep and Postictal Bradycardia
A research on the analysis of sleep on heart rate following a recorded seizure found that deep sleep independently contributed to postictal bradycardia. This autonomic dysregulation, when severe enough, may contribute to postictal cardiac deterioration leading to death. Heart rate trends for multiple seizures were analysed in 42 patients with 101 electroencephalographically confirmed events. The […]