Which factors determine febrile seizure recurrence? A prospective study

Pavlidou, Efterpi; Tzitiridou, Maria; Kontopoulos, E.; Panteliadis, Christos P.

doi:10.1016/j.braindev.2007.05.001

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“…In our study, the respective incidence was higher, but we gathered information on FH in both first-and second-degree family members. Pavlidou reported a positive FH of epilepsy in 10.4% of her patients with FS and a positive FH of FS in 43.1% [18]. A FH of epilepsy in patients with FS has been reported to be a major prognostic factor in the development of later epilepsy [10,12].…”

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Predictive value of paroxysmal EEG abnormalities for future epilepsy in focal febrile seizures

Gradišnik

Zagradišnik

Palfy

et al. 2015

Brain and Development

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Predictive value of paroxysmal EEG abnormalities for future epilepsy in focal febrile seizures

Gradišnik

Zagradišnik

Palfy

et al. 2015

Brain and Development

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“…[2][3][4] Hands of healthcare workers have been identified as the most important factor in hospital acquired infections. 5 It is also well established that this can be minimised by appropriate handwashing.…”

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Handwashing Practices in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and Neonatal Nurseries in Patan Hospital

Joshi

Amatya

Poudel

et al. 2017

J Nepal Health Res Council

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Background:Hand hygiene has been identified as the single most important factor in minimising hospital acquired infections. However, compliance of handwashing guidelines has remained low. The aim of this study was to study the handwashing practices in the Paediatric and Neonatal intensive care units and Neonatal nurseries in Patan Hospital, and secondly to re-evaluate the improvement on compliance of handwashing guidelines after intervention.Methods: Pre-intervention study was conducted by covertly observing the handwashing practices by the healthcare workers. The healthcare workers were then shown the video demonstrating correct methods of handwashing as recommended by World health organization. The cycle was completed by discretely re-observing the handwashing practices following intervention.Results: Sixty five samples were collected initially. Only 6 (9.2%) had completed all steps of handwashing correctly. Post-intervention, 51 samples were collected, out of which 35 (68.6%) had correctly completed all the steps. Following audio-visual demonstration, 100% correctly completed 8/10 steps of handwashing with soap and water. 8 (16%) failed to dry hands using a single use towel and 14 (28%) failed to turn off the tap using elbow. Postintervention, 100% correctly completed 4/7 steps of handwashing using chlorhexidine. Four (15%) still failed to rub backs of fingers to opposite palm, eight (30%) failed to palm to palm with fingers interlaced, and rub thumb to opposite palm. Conclusions:Compliance in hand hygiene is low despite the known fact that it reduces nosocomial infections. However, a simple intervention like video demonstration can improve the compliance among healthcare workers.

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“…Trainor JL et al 9 in their study had shown that 64% of study population was male. Other studies 11,12,13 also had shown that it is the male children who were predominantly affected.…”

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Leucocytosis in Febrile Seizure

Rajbhandari

Aryal

2011

J. Nepal Paedtr. Soc.

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Introduction: Febrile seizure (FS) is a common condition affecting 2-5% of children. Peripheral blood leucocyte count with its differential is an initial test looking for the cause of fever and high count is usually accounted for the seizure activity. Objectives: To find the incidence of febrile seizure and to evaluate the relationship between fever duration before seizure, seizure duration and the total leucocyte as well as neutrophil response. Methodology: It is a cross sectional study done at Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal, for one year. After an informed consent, children from 6 months to 6 years with FS were admitted. Those with afebrile seizures and who refused to give consent were excluded. A detail history and examination was done on admission. All were investigated for the source of fever including total and differential count. Results: Out of a total 1742 children admitted, 115 (6.6%) children had febrile seizure. Simple febrile seizure was observed in 93(81%) and 22(19%) was complex febrile seizure. 42% of them had leucocytosis. The duration of fever before the onset of seizure is found to be negatively correlated with total leucocyte count (r = -0.418, p<0.001) and neutrophils count alone (r = -0.375, p<0.001). The duration of seizure is not correlated to both the total leucocyte count (r = -0.162, p = 0.85) and the neutrophil (r = -0.109, p= 0.247). Conclusion: The incidence of febrile seizure is 6.6%. Leucocytosis and neutrophilia in children is negatively correlated with the duration fever before the onset of seizure, associated with underlying infection if any and is not related to seizure event and its duration. Thus any child with febrile seizure with high leucocyte count should be evaluated for infection.

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Which factors determine febrile seizure recurrence? A prospective study

Cited by 65 publications

References 42 publications

Predictive value of paroxysmal EEG abnormalities for future epilepsy in focal febrile seizures

Predictive value of paroxysmal EEG abnormalities for future epilepsy in focal febrile seizures

Handwashing Practices in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and Neonatal Nurseries in Patan Hospital

Leucocytosis in Febrile Seizure

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