Teaching distinguishing semiological features improves diagnostic accuracy of seizure-like events by emergency physicians.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Misdiagnosis of seizure-like events (SLE) in emergency situations is common. Here, we evaluate whether a single, video-based lesson highlighting distinguishing semiological features can improve the diagnostic accuracy of emergency physicians for epileptic seizures (ES), psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) and syncopes (SY).

Methods

40 emergency physicians (24 anesthetists, nine surgeons and seven internal medicine specialists by primary specialty) participated in a prospective trial on the diagnostic accuracy of SLE. They assessed video-displayed SLE at two time points: before and after a lecture on distinguishing semiological features. In the lecture, semiological features were demonstrated using patient videos, some were acted by the instructor in addition

SUBMITTER: Gronheit W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9661782 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature