Association of guideline publication and delays to treatment in pediatric status epilepticus.
Publication/Presentation Date
9-1-2020
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether publication of evidence on delays in time to treatment shortens time to treatment in pediatric refractory convulsive status epilepticus (rSE), we compared time to treatment before (2011-2014) and after (2015-2019) publication of evidence of delays in treatment of rSE in the Pediatric Status Epilepticus Research Group (pSERG) as assessed by patient interviews and record review.
METHODS: We performed a retrospective analysis of a prospectively collected dataset from June 2011 to September 2019 on pediatric patients (1 month-21 years of age) with rSE.
RESULTS: We studied 328 patients (56% male) with median (25th-75th percentile [p
CONCLUSION: Publication of evidence on delays in time to treatment was not associated with improvements in time to treatment of rSE, although it was associated with an increase in the proportion of patients who received at least 1 BZD before hospital arrival.
Volume
95
Issue
9
First Page
1222
Last Page
1222
ISSN
1526-632X
Published In/Presented At
Sánchez Fernández, I., Abend, N. S., Amengual-Gual, M., Anderson, A., Arya, R., Barcia Aguilar, C., Brenton, J. N., Carpenter, J. L., Chapman, K. E., Clark, J., Farias-Moeller, R., Gaillard, W. D., Gaínza-Lein, M., Glauser, T., Goldstein, J., Goodkin, H. P., Guerriero, R. M., Lai, Y. C., McDonough, T., Mikati, M. A., … pSERG (2020). Association of guideline publication and delays to treatment in pediatric status epilepticus. Neurology, 95(9), e1222–e1235. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000010174
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences | Pediatrics
PubMedID
32611646
Department(s)
Department of Pediatrics
Document Type
Article