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When first line antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) have not been successful or an alternative monotherapy is required, second-line AEDs will be used as treatment. Second-line therapy for adults is phenytoin or fosphenytoin and phenobarbital for children. Third-line AEDs are only ever used when all other drugs have been unsuccessful, including phenytoin for children and phenobarbital for adults.

People who do not respond to any of the antiepileptic drugs included in the three levels of pharmacologic intervention are considered to be in status epilepticus. Status epilepticus is defined as prolonged or repetitive seizures without intervening neurologic recovery and would be treated by therapies such as barbiturate coma or isoflurane anesthesia.

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Thanks for sharing your proposed improvements here. I have a few small notes: Great work so far! JenOttawa (talk) 16:49, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * When adding citations, keep them consistent throughout. Citations are inserted after the punctuation (no space) like this.1
 * Can you find a way to use more basic english? Even the word monotherapy could be either wikilinked or changed to lay terminology. Try linking barbiturate coma, isoflurane, and anesthesia as well. I may have missed others.
 * Are AEDs defined earlier? Acronyms are defined the first time they are used in the article
 * I think that this sentence could be reworded as well to make it easier for someone who is not in a medical field to understand: Patients who remain unresponsive to all three levels of pharmacologic intervention are considered to be in status epilepticus. Replace "patients" with "people" or "a person" as per the Wiki way of communicating.