Open AccessCurrent Practice: Febrile seizures
Author(s) -
A LakKumar Fernando
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
sri lanka journal of child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2386-110X
pISSN - 1391-5452
DOI - 10.4038/sljch.v39i3.2281
Subject(s) - medical journal , sri lanka , scopus , medicine , transparency (behavior) , publishing , library science , family medicine , political science , medline , south asia , law , history , ethnology , computer science
According to the currently accepted definitions, seizures recurring after 24 hours will be ‘simple febrile seizures’ rather than ‘complex febrile seizures’. This is an ambiguous and untenable position. I think the definitions should be altered as follows: ‘Simple febrile seizures’ are seizures that are brief (less than 15 minutes), generalised and do not recur within the same febrile illness and ‘complex febrile seizures’ are seizures that are prolonged (15 minutes or more), focal or recur within the same febrile illness.
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