Seizures and risks for recurrence in critically ill patients: an observational cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To assess the frequency and clinical characteristics of seizures in adult critically ill patients, to identify predictors of recurrent seizures not transforming into status epilepticus and to characterize their effects on course and outcome.

Methods

ICU patients at a Swiss academic medical center with seizures not transforming into status epilepticus from 2015 to 2020 were included. Recurrent seizures and associated clinical characteristics were primary, death, and return to premorbid neurologic function were secondary outcomes.

Results

Two hundred of 26,370 patients (0.8%) with a median age of 65 years had seizures during ICU stay. Seizure semiology was described in 82% (49% generalized; 33% focal) with impaired consciousness during seizures in 80% and mot

SUBMITTER: Wagner AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9293863 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature