Is it possible to get a seizure while under anesthesia?
Unlikely. Many of the medications used in anesthesia--especially those in the valium family (benzodiazepines)--actually work to prevent seizures. If you have epilepsy, be sure to tell your anesthesiologist and take your medications on schedule before surgery with a sip of water. None of the anesthesia gases or other medications in current wide use are likely to provoke a seizure.
Yes. Eeg evidence of seizure activity during deep general anesthesia has been seen in patients known to have epilepsy.
No. Most general anesthetics are actually protective against seizures. In cases of status epilepticus they actually use anesthetics to break the seizures.
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