While intravenous diazepam is the most common antiepileptic medicine used in emergency rooms for treating seizures, it can only be administered by a healthcare professional at the hospital. Emergency hospital care has been the required treatment for ARS for decades. Effective treatment of ARS requires fast and powerful medical intervention. For the first time we now have a treatment that can be safely and easily used by caregivers outside of the hospital setting to manage Acute Repetitive Seizures.
Faster treatment means better results for the patient.
ARS can lead to life-threatening situations. SE can cause irreversible brain damage. Delays caused in getting people to the hospital can significantly worsen patient outcomes. A treatment like Diastat will now simplify the way we treat multiple seizures. More than 300,000 Canadians, or one in 100, have active epilepsy.