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The steamship Monarch arrived in Honolulu in mid-1882, carrying 859 Portuguese immigrants, over half of them women and children. Many Chinese immigrants left the United States for Hawaii; others, who had initially intended to come the United States, came to Hawaii instead. By the 1890 census, there were 34,436 Native Hawaiians and 6,186 "half-castes" for a total of 40,622 229 Ralph S. Kuykendall reports that "[i]t was, of course, recognized that some of those who were brought primarily for labor would remain and become part of the permanent population; and, on the other hand, those brought in primarily to replenish the population were expected to fill part of the need for laborers. But in the running discussion that was constantly going on, a distinction seemed to be made between immigration for labor supply and immigration for population upbuilding. Much stress was laid on the importance of bringing in people who were of the same racial stock of the Hawaiians or people who would readily amalgamate with the Hawaiian; "cognate races" were much talked about. Since concepts of racial classification were rather vague in popular mind of the day, nearly all Pacific islanders, including Malaysians and even Japanese, were thought cognate to the Hawaiians. What gets derisively called "cultural appropriation" in our crazy times has in fact often enriched cultures around the world. This was out of a total population of 89,990, making it only 45% of the population. It matters because even if we assume arguendo that the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani was a wrong, the victims of that wrong were not Native Hawaiians specifically. The Native Hawaiian people, through their kings and elected officials, had reached out to the peoples of the world, inviting them to become Hawaiians. The Kingdom of Hawaii was an extremely impressive, cosmopolitan multi-racial, multi-ethnic society. If some group was denied its right to sovereignty, it was that multi-racial, multi-ethnic group. Moreover, even if the Kingdom had been essentially a kinship-based tribe consisting overwhelmingly of Native Hawaiians, all of this has been water under the bridge at least since 1959 when Hawaii was made a State. Contemporary accounts describe the inhabitants of the Islands dancing in the street on that occasion.

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Just ten minutes reading a book, a walk to get ice cream or watching a movie together can help children feel special. It is also important to continue to make time for traditions and celebrations (holidays, birthdays, vacations, etc. Most children with epilepsy can attend school and participate in everyday activities. Some may need to take medicine at school and require help with certain subjects, or extra time on tests. With more than 300,000 school-age children in the United States with epilepsy, none of this is unusual. However, for a variety of reasons, there is a higher rate of school performance difficulties in children with seizures. Seizures themselves rarely cause these problems, but many factors related to seizures can affect learning. For this reason, all children with epilepsy should have their school progress monitored. Complete the Seizure Action Plan form with them and assure that everyone has a copy. Your local Epilepsy Foundation can help you find out about laws and services in your state. Children between the ages of 3 and through completion of 22nd birthday, who meet the eligibility criteria in one of thirteen qualifying disabilities and who require special education services because of the disability. Educating them is one of the most important things you can do to help your child at school. Also, use the What Everyone Should Know fact sheet in the Forms section and provide copies to others. Ask the teacher to discuss epilepsy with the class in a way that is age appropriate and comfortable for your child. Having a seizure at school can be embarrassing for a child and frightening for others.

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Back-up plans for busy times should also be developed to avoid gaps in patient observation. Physician coverage needs to be available 24 hours a day for epilepsy monitoring patients. If continuous availability by the primary physician is not practical, appropriate cross-coverage by knowledgeable consulting or house staff needs to be established so that rapid evaluation and treatment of seizurerelated emergencies can be provided. Patient Care, Monitoring, and Planning A standardized rescue plan should be established in the monitoring unit in order to minimize treatment delay and potential for error in the treatment of an acute seizure emergency. This rescue plan should include objective criteria for treatment initiation, such as a number of seizures over a defined time period, or for seizures lasting beyond a defined maximal 846 Part V: Epilepsy Surgery seizure duration. Other criteria for intervention may include the occurrence of a generalized seizure in a patient without a prior history, or the emergence of agitation in a patient with a history of postictal psychosis or violence. Creation of an admission order set for the epilepsy monitoring unit containing the standard protocol is advised to ensure that rescue plan orders are put in place at admission. It is critical to inquire specifically about drug allergies and significant nonallergic idiosyncratic reactions to potential rescue medications at admission so that needs for deviation from the standard rescue plan can be identified early. Continuous pulse oximetry should also be considered as apnea can complicate seizures (12). Twenty-four hour physician availability is necessary to handle any acute situations that may arise during hospitalization. Uniform policies for ambulation and activity should be established and made clear to patients upon admission due to the risk of seizure-related falls and injury. An unobstructed path to the patient bed needs to be ensured so that staff can attend to the patient in a timely manner. Bathroom fixtures pose safety risks and accommodations need to be considered to minimize the potential for injury in the event a seizure occurs there. Side rails with pads are reasonable to help prevent patients from falling out of bed during a seizure; however they can pose an unintended risk in some cases, particularly those with hypermotor semiologies. Caution is required when reducing antiepileptic medications in patients with a previous history of shoulder dislocation and in patients with an established diagnosis of osteopenia. Exercise modalities that do not require an upright posture should also be considered. If treadmills and exercise bicycles are used, a nurse or aide need to be present to help prevent seizure-related falls.

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If the intake of dietary vitamin K1 increases, the synthesis of the blood clotting factors begins to return to normal. The natural coumarins present in alfalfa are not considered to be anticoagulants, because they do not have the structural requirements for this activity. Importance and management Patients should be counselled on the effects of dietary vitamin K and the need to avoid dramatic dietary alterations while taking warfarin. It would be prudent to avoid large doses of alfalfa leaf supplements as a precaution when taking warfarin or other coumarin anticoagulants. Available evidence suggests that it is unlikely that infusions prepared with water, or alfalfa seeds, would pose any problem, due to the lower vitamin K1 content. Dietary vitamin K influences intra-individual variability in anticoagulant response to warfarin. Role of dietary vitamin K intake in chronic oral anticoagulation: prospective evidence from observational and randomized protocols. Patients with unstable control have a poorer dietary intake of vitamin K compared to patients with stable control of anticoagulation. Controlled vitamin K content diet for improving the management of poorly controlled anticoagulated patients: a clinical practice proposal. Constituents Aloe vera gel is contained in the mucilaginous tissue that is found in the inner leaf, and should not be confused with aloes, page 27, which is the latex stored in tubules along the leaf margin. Aloe vera gel may be produced by a handfilleted technique to remove the inner leaf, or by a whole-leaf extraction process where the aloes constituents (anthraquinones) are now usually subsequently removed. The principal constituents of the gel are polysaccharides consisting mainly of polymannans, of which acemannan is the major one. Other constituents include glycoproteins such as aloctins, and various carboxypeptidases, sterols, saponins, tannins, organic acids, vitamins and minerals.

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Of 284 patients from the cohort, 26% recalled a previous period of at least 1 year of seizure freedom since the onset of their epilepsy (25). This suggests that for some patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, medical intractability may not declare itself in the early stages of the disorder. Indeed, an initial apparently benign course seems to be one of the characteristics of this condition (58), but how often such a pattern is observed can only be accurately determined in a prospective study in which all patients with temporal lobe epilepsy are followed from the point of presentation with seizures. In the Glasgow cohort, newly diagnosed patients with underlying hippocampal sclerosis differed little in outcome from those with other localization-related epilepsies (38). Clearly, since epilepsy is not a single disease, syndrome and etiology-specific prospective prognostic studies are needed if individual patients are to be managed more appropriately. Operational Definition A pragmatic, unambiguous operational definition of medical intractability constituting the essential elements discussed above is needed in order to apply treatment rationally. The definition requires that the medication is failed despite being used at its clinically effective dose, that is, treatment failure is due to lack of efficacy instead of other reasons, such as an idiosyncratic reaction, and that the seizure-free period should be at least 1 year or 3 times the pre-treatment inter-seizure interval, whichever is longer. Fulfillment of the operational definition of medical intractability should prompt a comprehensive review of the diagnosis and management, preferably by an epilepsy center where epilepsy surgery may be offered as a therapeutic option. Pediatric Issues the timing of epilepsy surgery in children is further complicated by the need to consider the potential consequences of the insults from repeated seizures and from surgical intervention on the developing brain (60). This issue is particularly notable and sensitive when evaluating infants with catastrophic localization-related epilepsies, who may have many Chapter 71: Issues of Medical Intractability for Surgical Candidacy 815 seizures per day. Although controlled studies are lacking, resumption of developmental progression after early surgery has been observed. For instance, Wyllie and colleagues (61) performed various forms of epilepsy surgery in 12 children with a variety of pathologies at a mean age of 15. Therefore, the decision about the timing of surgery in children is strongly affected by the severity and natural history of the specific syndrome, taking into account the potential detrimental effects of continued seizures on neural plasticity, as well as on developmental and psychosocial outcomes. In some cases of catastrophic epilepsy, surgery should be considered even earlier than 2 years of onset following thorough, individualized evaluation (62,63). To this end, there is no substitution for population-based, long-term studies following patients from the point of presentation and diagnosis (64). Whether this would be a more effective management strategy if used earlier and in what situations remain to be determined (40). Outcome studies should also address the fundamental question of what constitutes drug failure.

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Although 60% of children did not respond to 60 therapy it is important to remember that the average non-response to antiepileptic therapy overall is 20-30% and demonstrating a benefit in 40% of difficult to treat, refractory, patients with mental retardation is important. Acid-base induced kidney stones are a potential complication of acetazolamide therapy, only one patient treated for 6+ years reported passing a stone. Acetazolamide was well tolerated with Transient drowsiness was the most common adverse event. Status Epilepticus There are currently no class I clinical trials which compare second-line therapy for status epilepticus. Agents recommended in practice guidelines include benzodiazepines, barbiturates, phenytoin/fosphenytoin, valproic acid, levetiracetam, thiopental and propofol. It aims to address the efficacy and tolerability of currently available treatments for established status epilepticus. Intravenous valproate was compared to intravenous phenobarbital by indirect comparison from two systematic reviews of intravenous phenytoin vs valproate and one systematic review of intravenous phenytoin vs phenobarbital. The most common adverse events included respiratory depression and liver dysfunction with phenytoin and valproate, hypoventilation and arrhythmias with phenobarbital and phenytoin and hypotension with phenytoin. Prevention of seizure recurrence within 24 hours after initial seizure control was statistically superior with valproate (p=0. Treiman et al128 compared 4 treatments (diazepam/phenytoin, lorazepam, phenobarbital or phenytoin) in overt or generalized, convulsive status epilepticus in adults. In patients with a verified diagnosis of overt status epilepticus, lorazepam was found superior to phenytoin (p=0. Of interest, the time required for complete infusion of lorazepam was significantly shorter than for all other regimens and significantly longer for phenytoin regimens (approximately 5 minutes for lorazepam vs 33 minutes for phenytoin). In an intent-to-treat analysis including patients with verified and unverified status epilepticus, no difference was found between treatment groups. It is unclear if lorazepam provides superior efficacy to other treatments, or is more quickly effective because it can be administered more rapidly. Treatment with valproate was associated with fewer adverse events than with phenobarbital and statistically fewer events than phenytoin, while phenobarbital and phenytoin use resulted in similar rates of adverse events. For uncontrolled status epilepticus valproate maintains a 24-hour, seizure-free state better than phenobarbital with statistically fewer significant adverse events.

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Thus, whereas ingestion of oxcarbazepine will result in exposure to oxcarbazepine Chapter 67: Newer Antiepileptic Drugs 773 (briefly, before conversion), as well as R- and S-licarbazepine, eslicarbazepine acetate ingestion will lead to exposure almost exclusively to eslicarbazepine acetate (before conversion) and Slicarbazepine (95% of total exposure). It is unknown to what extent, if at all, the two enantiomers will differ in their clinical properties. While the exact mechanism of action of the drug is unknown, the major active metabolite eslicarbazepine has been found to stabilize the inactivated state of voltage-gated sodium channels, and it also binds more selectively to rapidly firing neurons (21,22). It has an elimination half-life of approximately 20 to 24 hours, reaching steady state after 4 to 5 days (22). Metabolites are primarily renally excreted unchanged and as glucuronide conjugates (16,23); a recent study showed that mild renal impairment in patients affects clearance, thereby requiring a dose adjustment (24). Eslicarbazepine does not appear to significantly affect the plasma concentrations of R-warfarin. In preliminary studies, serum concentrations of lamotrigine and topiramate were significantly reduced by b. The most common adverse effects reported include nausea, headache, dizziness, somnolence, and circumoral/lips/tongue paresthesias. Patients with refractory partial epilepsy were randomized to receive eslicarbazepine acetate (400, 800, or 1200 mg depending on the study) or placebo for a 12-week maintenance period. Pooled data revealed that at doses of 800 and 1200 mg/day, eslicarbazepine acetate was associated with a statistically significant median relative reduction of seizure frequency (800 mg group 36. In addition, the responder rate (defined as equal to or greater than 50% reduction in seizure frequency) was also higher in those patients treated with eslicarbazepine acetate (800 mg: 36%, P 0. Hyponatremia (reported in 4/1050 patients) and rash (reported in 13/1050 patients) were rare. This may distinguish eslicarbazepine acetate from oxcarbazepine but as of now, the two drugs have not been compared head to head. Another difference is that eslicabazepine acetate was effective when administered once per day in clinical trials. It has effectively inhibited seizures in multiple mouse and rat models suggesting broad-spectrum anticonvulsant activity (15). There is no settled mechanism by which binding to this site leads to anticonvulsant effect.

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Nevertheless, consider this interaction if blood pressure is difficult to control. In order to achieve target levels, the tacrolimus dose was increased in all patients, from a median of 4. In contrast, no pharmacokinetic interaction was found in a 2-week study in healthy subjects. Importance and management the general clinical importance of this isolated report is uncertain. Both tibolone and hydroxychloroquine sulfate have been associated with liver toxicity alone but cases with hydroxychloroquine sulfate are quite rare. Nevertheless, it may be prudent to be aware of a possible interaction if symptoms of liver toxicity (fatigue, reduced appetite, dark urine) become apparent. Acute hepatitis with prolonged cholestasis and disappearance of interlobular bile ducts following tibolone and Hypericum perforatum (St. No changes in the use of these drugs or altered compliance were identified that might have offered an alternative explanation for the changed theophylline requirements. Despite the isolated case report of a marked decrease in theophylline levels, no significant pharmacokinetic interaction was noted in healthy subjects, and any pharmacokinetic interaction appears likely to be minor. However, until further evidence is available, it would be prudent to be aware of the possibility of an interaction. Importance and management the evidence for an interaction is limited to this study, and based on the minor reduction in amitriptyline levels seen, it seems unlikely that a clinically significant reduction in efficacy would occur. Decreased plasma levels of amitriptyline and its metabolites on comedication with an extract from St. Her liver function normalised after about one year of taking ursodesoxycholic acid 250 mg twice daily. Previous use of eletriptan and fluoxetine had not resulted in any reported adverse effects. After admission to hospital, the patient developed acute rhabdomyolysis and transient mild acute renal failure. Serotonin syndrome was diagnosed, all medications were stopped and the symptoms gradually resolved over 10 days. The possible concern is that concurrent use may result in the development of serotonin syndrome.

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Ugrasal, 51 years: It is recommended that gadolinium use be avoided when possible in patients with advanced renal disease. Approximately 35% to 50% of seizures extracranially recorded in extratemporal epilepsy are nonlateralizing (8). In various preclinical studies, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antirheumatic, immunostimulating, antimutagenic, antitumour and hypotensive properties have been shown.

Hanson, 56 years: Dialyzability of the antiepileptic drug zonisamide in patients undergoing hemodialysis. See Amy Goldstein, Trump Administration to Give Kentucky Medicaid Work Requirement a Second Chance, Washington Post (July 20, 2018). Buccal midazolam and rectal diazepam for treatment of prolonged seizures in childhood and adolescence: a randomized trial.

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