Are seizures predictors of mortality in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU)?
Seizure - European Journal of Epilepsy Oct 26, 2019
Silveira DC, et al. - Individuals above the age of 55 who underwent continuous electroencephalogram monitoring between 2015 and 2018 at the Hackensack Meridian Health and JFK Neuroscience Institute were involved in order to ascertain whether seizures in critically ill individuals (n = 101) were predictive of in-hospital mortality. Most individuals (n = 31) had focal-onset seizures, and ten had nonconvulsive status epilepticus. Twelve with seizures could not survive. Nevertheless, seizures were not unrestrictedly related to mortality in either unadjusted or adjusted regression models. Mechanical ventilation and acute ischemic stroke were secondary predictors of mortality. Hence, in critically ill individuals, seizures did not prognosticate in-hospital mortality.
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