PMID: 16512615Mar 4, 2006Paper

Status epilepticus as a cause of hospitalization

Przegla̧d lekarski
Janina Lankosz-LauterbachAnna Lis-Hille

Abstract

Status epilepticus (SE) in children as the most severe, life-threatening condition requires rapid, correct, standard and efficient treatment. The results depend on the properly coordinated management at patient's home, emergency, intensive care units and pediatric neurology departments. The aim of this research was to recognise type of diagnostic and therapeutic problems in children hospitalized with SE. Differences between two groups of children: I group with SE as the first manifestation of epilepsy and group II with epilepsy treated before occurrence of SE were studied as well. In this retrospective study, 33 hospitalizations of 24 children (14 boys and 10 girls) aged 5 months to 15 years (mean 7 years) were analysed. Patients with SE hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department, Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University in Cracow between 1.01.2002 and 31.12.2004 were included. The group I consisted of 13 children (54%) and the group II consisted of 11 children. In both groups the age and gender of patients, duration of hospitalisation, necessity of assisted ventilation and thiopental coma were analysed. Causes of epilepsy and SE were studied as well. Duration of SE before hospitalization, similar in both...Continue Reading

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