Epileptic Seizures in Intensive Care Units

University Hospital Basel

Status: Completed

Conditions: Epileptic Seizure

Treatments: Other: collection of patient data

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03860467

2018-02361 me19Sutter;

Details and patient eligibility

About

This retrospective observational cohort study is to assess and analyze clinical, electroencephalographic, laboratory, comorbidity, and treatment characteristics of Intensive care unit (ICU)-patients with epileptic seizures and to subsequently compare their characteristics with ICU-patients with status epilepticus (SE).

Full description

The aim of this retrospective observational cohort study is to get further insight into adult patients with epileptic seizures in ICUs in an academic tertiary medical care center regarding frequency, clinical and electroencephalogram (EEG) characteristics, treatment, course and outcome. This data could help understanding the epidemiology (including risk factors, influence of EEG), and to guide management and improve outcomes of affected patients.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• admitted to the ICU at the University Hospital Basel
• suffered from one or more epileptic seizures (detected clinically and/or by EEG) during their ICU-stay

Exclusion criteria

• patients with epileptic seizures transforming into Status epilepticus (SE)