View clinical trials related to Status Epilepticus.
Filter by:This study examines the use of an AI-powered virtual assistant for quickly identifying and handling neurological emergencies, particularly in places with limited medical resources. The research aimed to check if this AI tool is safe and accurate enough to move on to more advanced testing stages. In a first-of-its-kind trial, the virtual assistant was tested with patients having urgent neurological issues. Neurologists first reviewed the AI's recommendations using clinical records and then assessed its performance directly with patients. The findings were as follows: neurologists agreed with the AI's decisions nearly all the time, and the AI outperformed earlier versions of Chat GPT in every tested aspect. Patients and doctors found the AI to be highly effective, rating it as excellent or very good in most cases. This suggests the AI could significantly enhance how quickly and accurately neurological emergencies are dealt with, although further trials are needed before it can be widely used.
Status epilepticus is the second most common neurologic emergency in children. Morbidity and mortality are considerable; thus, timely termination of convulsive status epilepticus is the primary goal of management to avoid these risks Our objective was to compare the efficacy of phenytoin and Levetiracetam in status epilepticus in children. This study was done in the pediatric emergency department of Children Hospital Faisalabad. A total of 70 patients were randomly allocated to one of the groups by a computer-generated random number table according to their admission in an emergency. Children in group A were given levetiracetam. Children in group B were given I/V phenytoin. For both groups if seizures recurred after the first loading dose an additional 10mg/kg of the same drug was given over 10 minutes. The patients were monitored to see whether there was any recurrence of seizure activity in the subsequent 24 hours. Seizure control was defined as the absence of seizure within 24 hours after the initial loading of the drug.
This study will help to identify the causes of new epilepsy and provide a basis for the development of a rational and standardized diagnosis and treatment plan to reduce the rate of disability and death.
Children frequently present with altered or reduced consciousness levels to emergency departments. By using EEG monitoring, subclinical seizure activity may be detected, leading to earlier pharmacological intervention and improved outcomes. Post-ictal phases that may be interpreted as seizure activity may become less over-treated. A feasibility study will ascertain if EEG monitoring can be applied successfully in this cohort, within a specified time period, obtaining minimum artefact (defined as < 25% artefact). EEG recordings will not be used to guide clinical management during this feasibility study.
Generalized status epilepticus is a common pediatric neurological emergency with significant mortality and morbidity. Benzodiazepines remain the first anticonvulsive line but benzo-diazepines don't control seizures in about 30% of cases. GCSE may be more rapidly stopped and controlled through combining another drug with benzodiazepines such as Levetiracetam, acting by different pathways. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of combined levetiracetam and midazolam in treatment of generalized convulsive status epilepticus in children.
This is a pilot trial of a single loading dose of vigabatrin in post-anoxic status epilepticus.
This study is a phase 1, open-label, crossover, comparison study to evaluate the safety and pharmacokinetics (PK) of a single IM administration of 10 mg midazolam using Rafa's auto-injector compared with seizalam in healthy adults. All subjects will participate in both study periods which will span 28 days following a pre study screening visit.
A prospective cohort minimal risk study to determine the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on outcomes of neurologically injured ICU patients.
This study is to investigate the effects of different treatment characteristics regarding the use of intravenous anesthetic drugs (IVADs) as a rescue treatment for refractory Status epilepticus (RSE) on course and outcome. A retrospective data extraction from the digital medical records, the electroencephalographic and microbiologic database of all consecutive adult patients with Status epilepticus (SE) admitted to the University Hospital Basel is undertaken.
•Background: Intravenous clonazepam is the most widely used first-line benzodiazepine in Europe for the initial management of status epilepticus in children. The guidelines of the "Société de reanimation de langue francaise" (SRLF) and the "société française de médecine d'urgence" (SFMU) published in 2018 recommend an initial loading dose of 0.015 mg / kg of clonazepam in this situation (maximum 1.5 mg). To our knowledge, there is no specific study of the efficacy of clonazepam according to the dose used. Objective: To compare the effectiveness of the initial loading dose of clonazepam in children treated for status epilepticus •Methods: Monocentric retrospective study including children < 16 years who have benefited from an initial loading dose of clonazepam in the context of status epilepticus treated at the Montpellier University Hospital between January 2016 and June 2019. The investigators collected data from medical records (clinic, treatment , evolution) and compared these according to the dosage of clonazepam used. •Discussion: Among the benzodiazepines used in the first-line treatment of pediatric status epileptic, lorazepam and midazolam are the most widely used drugs in the world. Lorazepam is not so much used in Europe because the injectable form is not available for a daily use. Conversely, clonazepam is used in a large number of European countries but is rarely used in the United States due to the lack of an injectable form. About the tolerance of treatment, except overdose situations, clonazepam is a drug well tolerated in the pediatric populatin. The main side effects of clonazepam are respiratory depression and impaired alertness. To our knowledge, this study is the first to examine the efficacy depending on the initial loading dosage of clonazepam in children status epilepticus.