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Critically ill patients are subjected to numerous medication effects during their stay in the intensive care unit (ICU). Some of them have epileptogenic potentials. The most common pathophysiologic mechanism is through blockade of the γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptor, and the most commonly used family of ICU drugs, reducing the seizure threshold, is the antibiotics. The exact role of these medications...