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Review article: Paediatric status epilepticus in the pre-hospital setting: An update

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posted on 2024-06-05, 04:04 authored by Jeremy FurykJeremy Furyk, K Watt, TI Emeto, S Dalziel, D Bodnar, K Riney, FE Babl
Paediatric status epilepticus (SE) is a medical emergency and a common critical condition confronting pre-hospital providers. Management in the pre-hospital environment is challenging but considered extremely important as a potentially modifiable factor on outcome. Recent data from multicentre clinical trials, quality observational studies and consensus documents have influenced management in this area, and is important to both pre-hospital providers and emergency physicians. The objective of this review was to: (i) present an overview of the available evidence relevant to pre-hospital care of paediatric SE; and (ii) assess the current pre-hospital practice guidelines in Australia and New Zealand. The review outlines current definitions and guidelines of SE management, regional variability in pre-hospital protocols within Australasia and aspects of pre-hospital care that could potentially be improved. Contemporary data is required to determine current practice in our setting. It is important that paediatric neurologists, emergency physicians and pre-hospital care providers are all engaged in future endeavours to improve clinical care and knowledge translation efforts for this patient group.

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Journal

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volume

29

Pagination

383-390

Location

Chichester, Eng.

ISSN

1742-6731

eISSN

1742-6723

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Issue

4

Publisher

Wiley

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