What are the complications of generalized seizures?

What are the complications of generalized seizures?

Charles Ribak, Ph.D. (Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, UC Irvine School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: What happens to the brain and body during a generalized seizure?; What do I do if I think I'm going to have a generalized seizure?; What do I do if I see someone having a generalized seizure? and more...

With regards to generalized seizures, one of the major complications of a generalized seizure in the back of everybody's mind and every doctor's mind is that it could become status epilepticus, and status epilepticus can lead to death. There are certain medicines that can be placed either rectally or sub-lingually while the person is having the generalized seizure to prevent it from becoming status epilepticus.