How can nurses help reduce the risk of sudden death in young people with epilepsy?
Neil Williamson Children’s nurse specialist in epilepsy
A condition no one talks about ends around 600 lives a year
SUDEP. These five letters probably have no meaning unless you have been living in the shadow of epilepsy. The acronym stands for sudden unexpected death in epileptic people.
Emergency Nurse.
29, 3, 13-13.
doi: 10.7748/en.29.3.13.s11
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