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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2013 Jan;41(1):210–218. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182668035

Table 1.

Patient characteristics by seizure category.

Variable Total
N
No Seizures
N (%)
Electrographic Seizures
N (%)
Electrographic Status Epilepticus
N (%)
p-value
Total N=200 200 116 (58%) 41 (20.5%) 43 (21.5%)
Age in Years Median [Interquartile Range] 4.3 [1, 11.7] 1.3 [0.4, 3.9] 5.4 [0.6, 10] 0.005
Sex 200
 Male 112 64 (57%) 21 (19%) 27 (24%) 0.54
 Female 88 52 (59%) 20 (21%) 16 (18%)
Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM) III Score at 24 hours 154 12 [5,22] 8 [2,15] 8 [5,16] 0.16
Acute Neurologic Disorder Category 0.12
 Epilepsy with altered mental status following a seizure 41 18 (44%) 13 (32%) 10 (24%)
 Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy 50 32 (64%) 10 (20%) 8 (16%)
 Encephalitis 22 12 (55%) 2 (9%) 8 (36%)
 Traumatic Brain Injury 19 13 (68%) 1 (5%) 5 (26%)
 Stroke 13 5 (38%) 4 (31%) 4 (31%)
 Sepsis 8 6 (75%) 0 (0%) 2 (25%)
 Posterior Reversible Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome 4 1 (25%) 1 (25%) 2 (50%)
 Neurosurgical Procedure 12 7 (58%) 3 (25%) 2 (17%)
 Provoked Seizure 14 11 (79%) 1 (7%) 2 (14%)
 Systemic/Metabolic 17 11 (65%) 6 (35%) 0 (0%)
Prior Normal Neurodevelopment 124 70 (57%) 25 (20%) 29 (23%) 0.7
EEG Background Category <0.001
 Normal or Sedated-Sleep 30 29 (97%) 1 (3%) 0 (0%)
 Slow and Disorganized 136 68 (50%) 35(26%) 33 (24%)
 Discontinuous or Burst-Suppression 23 9 (39%) 4 (17%) 10 (44%)
 Attenuated and Featureless 11 10 (91%) 1 (9%) 0 (0%)
PICU Length of Stay (days) 200 6.5 [3,18] 9 [3,22] 7 [3,16] 0.54
Hospital Length of Stay (days) 200 12.5 [4.5, 33] 17 [7, 35] 16 [7,28] 0.28
Indication for EEG Monitoring 200 <0.001
 Acute encephalopathy with prior convulsion 99 43 (43%) 27 (27%) 31 (31%)
 Acute encephalopathy without prior convulsion 100 73 (73%) 14 (14%) 12 (12%)
Abnormal movements or vital sign fluctuations 200 0.313
 Yes 172 97 (57%) 35 (20%) 40 (23%)
 No 28 19 (68%) 6 (21%) 3 (11%)