3 anticonvulsants similarly effective in stopping fatal epilepsy seizures
Three anticonvulsant drugs — levetiracetam, fosphenytoin, and valproate — are equally effective in stopping life-threatening epilepsy seizures in patients who are unresponsive to benzodiazepines, thus providing affirmation for physicians that any of the three drugs can be used for treating status epilepticus, according to results from ESETT*.