1. EEG Monitoring and Antiepileptic Drugs in Children with Severe TBI
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Tellen D. Bennett, Peter E. DeWitt, Christopher M. Ruzas, Kevin E. Chapman, Nicole Harlaar, and Kimberly Statler Bennett
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pediatrics ,Neurology ,Adolescent ,Traumatic brain injury ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Electroencephalography ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Severity of Illness Index ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Seizures ,030225 pediatrics ,Severity of illness ,Brain Injuries, Traumatic ,medicine ,Humans ,Child ,Neurophysiological Monitoring ,Retrospective Studies ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Infant ,Retrospective cohort study ,medicine.disease ,United States ,Anticonvulsant ,Anesthesia ,Child, Preschool ,Cohort ,Anticonvulsants ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes substantial morbidity and mortality in US children. Post-traumatic seizures (PTS) occur in 11-42% of children with severe TBI and are associated with unfavorable outcome. Electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring may be used to detect PTS and antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) may be used to treat PTS, but national rates of EEG and AED use are not known. The purpose of this study was to describe the frequency and timing of EEG and AED use in children hospitalized after severe TBI.Retrospective cohort study of 2165 children at 30 hospitals in a probabilistically linked dataset from the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) and the Pediatric Health Information Systems (PHIS) database, 2007-2010. We included children (age18 years old at admission) with linked NTDB and PHIS records, severe (Emergency Department [ED] Glasgow Coma Scale [GCS]8) TBI, hospital length of stay24 h, and non-missing disposition. The primary outcomes were EEG and AED use.Overall, 31.8% of the cohort had EEG monitoring. Of those, 21.8% were monitored on the first hospital day. The median duration of EEG monitoring was 2.0 (IQR 1.0, 4.0) days. AEDs were prescribed to 52.0% of the cohort, of whom 61.8% received an AED on the first hospital day. The median duration of AED use was 8.0 (IQR 4.0, 17.0) days. EEG monitoring and AED use were more frequent in children with known risk factors for PTS. EEG monitoring and AED use were not related to hospital TBI volume.EEG use is relatively uncommon in children with severe TBI, but AEDs are frequently prescribed. EEG monitoring and AED use are more common in children with known risk factors for PTS.
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- 2017