EpiNet study of incidence of status epilepticus in Auckland, New Zealand: Methods and preliminary results

• DOI: 10.1111/epi.14478
• Publication Date: 2018-08-30T10:34:08Z
• Authors: Peter S. Bergin; Alice Brockington; Jayaganth Jayabal; Shona Scott; Rhonda Litchfield; Lynair Roberts; Jerelyn Timog; Erica Beilharz; Stuart R. Dalziel; Peter Jones; Kim Yates; Vanessa Thornton; Elizabeth B. Walker; Braden Te Ao; Priya Parmar; Ettore Beghi; Andrea O. Rossetti; Valery Feigin
• Keywords: Male; Adolescent; Incidence; Infant; 3. Good health; Hospitalization; 03 medical and health sciences; Status Epilepticus; 0302 clinical medicine; Child, Preschool; Humans; Female; Child; New Zealand; Retrospective Studies

Summary The EpiNet project has been commenced to facilitate investigator‐led collaborative research in epilepsy. A new Web‐based data collection tool developed within record comprehensive regarding status epilepticus and used for a study of Auckland, New Zealand. All patients aged >4 weeks who presented any the five public hospitals major private hospital Auckland city (population = 1.61 million) with an episode between April 6, 2015 5, 2016 were identified using multiple overlapping sources information. For this study, was defined as seizure exceeding 10 minutes duration, or repeated seizures lasting >10 without recovery seizures. Patients had either convulsive nonconvulsive included. Episodes classified according International League Against Epilepsy ILAE classification. total 477 episodes 367 considered definite probable epilepticus; 285 (62%) lasted >30 minutes, which is duration that previously epidemiological studies epilepticus.