Excessive hospitalization of patients with seizures in the Germany prehospital emergency system: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Seizures are a common reason for calling emergency medical services. A lack of guidelines on prehospital treatment in Germany leads to high transportation rates and reduced confidence in decision making by professionals. Our aim was to investigate the reasons for hospitalization and evaluate their necessity. A retrospective analysis of all emergency medical services records in Munich, Germany was performed in order to examine the reasons for hospitalization of patients with seizures and to evaluate their trajectory following admission to a university hospital. 8882 records were analyzed with 415 records reporting seizures (4.9%). Primary endpoint was transportation to hospital. In 380 cases (92%) patients were transported, of which 177 patients (47%) had known epilepsy; 35 patients (8%) we

SUBMITTER: Fuest KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9237077 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature