For the emergency treatment of seizures in hospital intravenous lorazepam may be used but in small children and outside hospital intravenous access is often difficult. Rectal diazepam has been used for many years and more recently midazolam has been used by nasal or buccal route. Now buccal midazolam has been compared with rectal diazepam in emergency departments in Liverpool, Derby, Nottingham, and Birmingham (John McIntyre and colleagues. … OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science