facts that will be difficult to put reassuringly yet convincingly:

[electricland]

“Studies that applied EEG criteria for seizures documented 50% mortality in preterm and 40% mortality in term infants [with neonatal seizures]. The prevalence of adverse neurologic sequelae was 65% in survivors.”

wah.

Comments

[skrymir.livejournal.com]

What is it you do? You work in technical writing for a medical company?

[electricland.livejournal.com]

I used to, sorta -- I moved back to Toronto this summer and I'm now a medical writer for a children's hospital.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

more specifically, I write for this site (http://www.aboutkidshealth.ca/). I'm working on a subsite on epilepsy (similar to the ones on diabetes, brain tumours and heart conditions that are already on there).

It's large. And scary. Expect further wails of despair from time to time.