Up to 53% of patients will develop chronic epilepsy even with seizure prophylaxis in the setting of traumatic brain injuries. How do TBIs even cause seizures? When should we give seizure prophylaxis for TBIs? What anticonvulsants are considered for this indication? Hello there, Pharmers and Friends, Mark with PHARMWYZE. I'm a board certified emergency medicine pharmacist. I make clinical pharmacotherapy content on the social medias. Thanks for joining me on the Code Blue Debrief: A Clinical Pharmacotherapy YouTube & Podcast Series. We discuss emergency medicine and critical care pharmacology and disease state management. Make sure to stop by my website at www.pharmwyze.com, or visit linktr.ee/pharmwyze for my SM accounts. Website: www.pharmwyze.com Shop: www.pharmwyze.com/shop Patreon: https://patreon.com/PHARMWYZE Paypal Donation: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PTNLSD4G5X6BA Social Media: linktr.ee/pharmwyze PHARMWYZE SITREP Newsletter: https://www.pharmwyze.com/pharmacotherapy-newsletter AtlasVPN: http://tinyurl.com/8tahadc7 Not medical advice. Educational purposes only. No relationships to report. References Ohman K, Kram B, Schultheis J et al. Neurocrit Care. 2023 Apr;38(2):345-355. Carney et al. Neurosurgery. 2017 Jan 1;80(1):6-15. Lucke-Wold et al. Seizure. 2015 Dec;33:13-23. DJohn J, Ibrahim R, Patel P, et al. Cureus. 2020 Jul; 12(7): e9117. #pharmacist #pharmwyze #pharmfax #criticalcare #emergencymedicine #studentpharmacist #nursingstudent #medicalstudent #pharmacy #medicine #nursing #meded #shorts #rxshorts #medigram #thelab #medshed #foamed #emrx #pharmacology #pharmacokinetics #cardiology #neurology #infectiousdisease #mechanism #mechanismofaction #moa #drugs #ketamine #propofol #etomidate #fentanyl #calcium #mtp #massivetransfusion #ems #emergency #antibiotics #metabolism #antipsychotics #drugs