A Study of Cardiac Arrhythmia and ECG Changes in Children With Convulsions at Sohag University Hospital

Sohag University

Status

Not yet enrolling

Conditions

Convulsions

Treatments

Device: ECG

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05322772

Soh-Med-22-03-05

Details and patient eligibility

About

Convulsion is a common pediatric disorder and there is strong relation between convulsion and cardiovascular system which revealed by ECG monitoring and there are many ECG abnormalities attributed to different causes of convulsions, A 12-lead ECG is a low-cost test and can detect clinically significant abnormalities such as long QTc interval or heart block. Doing an ECG in all patients presenting with seizures clinic, inevitably, pick up non-specific abnormalities which require further investigation. Moreover, a normal 12-lead ECG does not exclude a cardiovascular cause for collapse and for those in whom a cardiac cause is still suspected despite a normal ECG, referral to a cardiologist is advisable

Enrollment

100 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

1 month to 18 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

All children aged from 1month to 18 years presenting to the Pediatric Emergency with convulsions will be included.

Exclusion criteria

Children not filling the criteria of convulsions (like conditions mimic epilepsy)
Children with known cardiac disease or cardiac arrhythmia and patients who will not give consent will be excluded.

Trial design

100 participants in 9 patient groups

children with epilepsy

Description:

epilepsy diagnosed clinically EEG

Treatment:

Device: ECG

children with febrile convulsions

Description:

the child has high grade fever from 6 month to 6 years not recurrent duration less than 15 minute or atypical febrile convulsions

Treatment:

Device: ECG

children with cns infection

Description:

the child has fever, neck, rigidity DCL +or- CSF analysis

Treatment:

Device: ECG

children with electrolyte imbalance, hypoglycemia

Description:

abnormal values of electrolyte hypoglycemia

Treatment:

Device: ECG

children with poisoning

Description:

history of ingestion or inhalation of toxic substance

Treatment:

Device: ECG

children with encephalopathy

Description:

the child complains of brain disease or mal function with altered mental status as a complication of primary illness as kidney failure ,cirrhosis, etc.

Treatment:

Device: ECG

children with trauma

Description:

history of trauma imaging study done

Treatment:

Device: ECG

children with genetic cause

Description:

the child has congenital anomaly as chromosomal abnormality, metabolic disease, mitochondrial disease

Treatment:

Device: ECG