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).
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.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
200
Patient data will be collected using the in-house digital patient record systems and the local digital electroencephalogram (EEG)-database
Clinic for Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Basel
Basel, Switzerland
Frequency of epileptic seizures
Frequency of all epileptic seizures in the ICU
Time frame: between 01.01.2005 and 19.12.2018
Number of epileptic seizures captured by EEG
Number of epileptic seizures captured by EEG without overt clinical seizure presentation in the ICU
Time frame: between 01.01.2005 and 19.12.2018
Number of epileptic seizures diagnosed on the basis of clinical symptoms alone
Number of epileptic seizures diagnosed on the basis of clinical symptoms alone in the ICU
Time frame: between 01.01.2005 and 19.12.2018
Length of epileptic seizure (time)
Duration of epileptic seizure
Time frame: between 01.01.2005 and 19.12.2018
Semiological feature of epileptic seizure (i.e. seizure types)
Semiological feature of epileptic seizure (i.e. seizure types) emerging in ICU-patients
Time frame: between 01.01.2005 and 19.12.2018
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