Pediatric status epilepticus management by Emergency Medical Services (the pSERG cohort).
Publication/Presentation Date
10-1-2023
Abstract
PURPOSE: Delayed treatment in status epilepticus (SE) is independently associated with increased treatment resistance, morbidity, and mortality. We describe the prehospital management pathway and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) timeliness in children who developed refractory convulsive status epilepticus (RCSE).
METHODS: Retrospective multicenter study in the United States using prospectively collected observational data from June 2011 to March 2020. We selected pediatric patients (one month-21 years) with RCSE initiated outside the hospital and transported to the hospital by EMS.
RESULTS: We included 91 patients with a median (percentile
CONCLUSION: In this multicenter study of pediatric RCSE, prehospital treatment may be streamlined further. Patients with a history of SE were more likely to receive prehospital rescue medication.
Volume
111
First Page
51
Last Page
55
ISSN
1532-2688
Published In/Presented At
Amengual-Gual, M., Sánchez Fernández, I., Vasquez, A., Abend, N. S., Anderson, A., Arya, R., Barcia Aguilar, C., Brenton, J. N., Carpenter, J. L., Chapman, K. E., Clark, J., Farias-Moeller, R., Gaillard, W. D., Glauser, T. A., Goldstein, J. L., Goodkin, H. P., Lai, Y. C., Mikati, M. A., Morgan, L. A., Novotny, E. J., … Pediatric Status Epilepticus Research Group (pSERG) (2023). Pediatric status epilepticus management by Emergency Medical Services (the pSERG cohort). Seizure, 111, 51–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2023.07.010
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences | Pediatrics
PubMedID
37523933
Department(s)
Department of Pediatrics
Document Type
Article