Open AccessEtiology of Non-Traumatic Seizures in Children Admitted to PICU: An Eight-Year Retrospective Study
Author(s) -
Xingming Deng,
Fang He,
Ciliu Zhang,
Fei Yin,
Jing Peng
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of general medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.722
H-Index - 36
ISSN - 1178-7074
DOI - 10.2147/ijgm.s283036
Subject(s) - etiology , medicine , pediatrics , epilepsy , incidence (geometry) , retrospective cohort study , pediatric intensive care unit , disease , psychiatry , physics , optics
Seizure is a serious neurological symptom in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), yet data on etiologies of non-traumatic childhood seizures in China are scarce. We aimed to investigate the etiological trends of seizures in children admitted to the PICU in our tertiary center.