Every Minute of Delay in Treating an Emergency Seizure Increases the Risk of Sequelae and Mortality by 5%

But in addition to the high prevalence, it is a disease that carries high mortality, morbidity, deterioration in the quality of life and social stigma: the World Health Organization (WHO) considers epilepsy as the second neurological disease with the highest weight in the burden of global disability and mortality. In Europe, the mortality rate of patients with epilepsy is 2-3 times higher than that of the general population, the life expectancy …