Revisiting Survey Investigating Why Patients Are Not Receiving Home Anti-convulsant Medication Prior to Surgery/or Procedure Involving General Anesthesia

Vidya Raman

Status: Completed

Conditions: Seizures

Treatments: Other: Survey

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01897974

IRB13-00276

Details and patient eligibility

About

Children with seizure disorder face unique challenges during the perioperative period. Fasting, sleep-deprivation, and missed doses of medications while patients are required to have nothing per mouth (NPO) are a few factors that decrease the seizure threshold. The incidence of seizures in this population is unknown but correlated with patient's underlying condition and missed doses of anti-convulsant. Previous work has determined this is not a unique problem.

The investigators initially found compliance extremely poor at 60%. The investigators have made improvement to about 80% compliance through various interventions: education of nursing, availability of anticonvulsant intravenous dosing alternatives, and re-wording the hospital NPO policy. The investigators feel that a new, more focused, survey will help identify, perioperative reasons for non-compliance on part of the parents. This information will be utilized to guide further interventions aimed at improving compliance.

Enrollment: 300 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• We plan to include all children 0-18 years of age on anticonvulsant(s) for seizure disorder.

Exclusion criteria

• None.

Trial design

300 participants in 1 patient group

Seizure disorder

Description:

Patients that are on medications for seizure disorder.

Treatment:

Other: Survey