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Emergency department management of seizures in pediatric patients.

Overview of attention for article published in Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, March 2015
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Title
Emergency department management of seizures in pediatric patients.
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Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice, March 2015
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Genevieve Santillanes, Quyen Luc

Abstract

Seizures account for 1% of all emergency department visits for children, and the etiologies range from benign to life-threatening. The challenge for emergency clinicians is to diagnose and treat the life-threatening causes of seizures while avoiding unnecessary radiation exposure and painful procedures in patients who are unlikely to have an emergent pathology. When treating patients in status epilepticus, emergency clinicians are also faced with the challenge of choosing anticonvulsant medications that will be efficacious while minimizing harmful side effects. Unfortunately, evidence to guide the evaluation and management of children presenting with new and breakthrough seizures and status epilepticus is limited. This review summarizes available evidence and guidelines on the diagnostic evaluation of first-time, breakthrough, and simple and complex febrile seizures. Management of seizures in neonates and seizures due to toxic ingestions is also reviewed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Ghana 1 2%
Unknown 40 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 7 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 15%
Student > Postgraduate 5 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 12%
Student > Bachelor 4 10%
Other 7 17%
Unknown 7 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 49%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Psychology 1 2%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 11 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 December 2015.
All research outputs
#15,094,401
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice
#31
of 143 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#133,677
of 271,003 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice
#1
of 3 outputs
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