Emergency Medical Services and Epilepsy in Switzerland

Theusinger Oliver M.

Status: Completed

Conditions: Epilepsy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03346382

OMT 01012015 SRZ

Details and patient eligibility

About

Retrospective data analysis, all emergency medical services of the city of Zurich interventions due to epileptic convulsions during June 2013 and December 2014 have been analyzed regarding the type of drug used, its application mode and the application mode based success. Furthermore, children versus adults were compared. Continuous variables were summarized as mean ± standard deviation (SD) and also presented as median [minimum; maximum]. Groups were compared using the independent samples t-test. P-values < 0.05 are considered significant.

Enrollment: 584 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• emergency calls for epileptic seizures received by the emergency medical system of Zurich,Switzerland,
• the use of midazolam or diazepam or no drug used.

Exclusion criteria

• the use of any other first line drug to stop seizures than the two mentioned above e.g. thiopental