Convulsions are the most common neurological emergency in children. The most serious of these is a continuous seizure when a partial or generalized seizure lasts more than 30 minutes or multiple seizures occur consecutively without a period of consciousness.

When an epileptic seizure occurs, it causes the patient to have convulsions. If the convulsion lasts from 30 to 45 minutes and is not treated promptly, it can cause serious complications due to brain damage.

Status epilepticus causes seizures that cause convulsions and loss of consciousness. If the seizures last too long and are not treated properly and promptly, they will cause clinical damage to the brain.

Seizures are the result of abnormal electrical impulses occurring and transmitting within the brain. Epilepsy is classified in several ways, the most common of which are generalized seizures and partial seizures. Partial seizures can then be further divided into different types such as partial motor seizures and complex partial seizures.