کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
6013017 1185908 2013 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Utility and safety of prolonged video-EEG monitoring in a tertiary pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
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Utility and safety of prolonged video-EEG monitoring in a tertiary pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit
چکیده انگلیسی
Prolonged video-EEG (vEEG) monitoring helps characterize paroxysmal events and epilepsy. There is limited literature in pediatrics describing the safety and utility of vEEG. We retrospectively reviewed 454 pediatric epilepsy monitoring unit admissions over two years. Final event diagnoses, duration of seizures, and medical complications were analyzed. Two hundred twenty admissions (48.4%) captured epileptic seizures, 150 (33.0%) captured nonepileptic events, and 84 (18.5%) failed to capture any events. Medical complications were seen in 4 patients (1.8%) with no long-term complications. Seventeen episodes of status epilepticus occurred in 13 patients. This constituted 2.9% of all admissions and 5.9% of admissions with epileptic seizures. The median duration of status was 26 min, and three patients required transfer to the pediatric intensive care unit. Video-EEG monitoring had a high yield in capturing events and differentiating epileptic from nonepileptic events. Our pediatric patients experienced greater risk of status epilepticus but lesser risk of injury.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Epilepsy & Behavior - Volume 27, Issue 2, May 2013, Pages 346-350
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