Table 1.
Two-sided Wilcoxon rank-sum test for seizures with and without PGES.
Parameter | No PGES mean ± standard deviation (median, range) |
PGES mean ± standard deviation (median, range) |
p-value |
---|---|---|---|
Total seizure duration (seconds) | 143.1 ± 84.0 (123, 38–455) | 128.0 ± 78.5 (109.5, 57–516) | 0.136 |
Duration of convulsion (seconds) | 76.6 ± 44.1 (67, 16–324) | 73.94 ± 27.6 (69, 38–216) | 0.544 |
Duration of tonic phase (seconds) | 21.5 ± 9.1 (19, 6–60) | 21.9 ± 10.0 (20, 4–56) | 0.892 |
Ictal/postictal ETCO2 peak (mm Hg) | 55.7 ± 13.8 (54, 36–94) | 64.4 ± 15.3 (61, 44–98) | 0.011 |
ETCO2 change from preictal baseline (mm Hg) | 17.6 ± 12.8 (15, 2–50) | 28.4 ± 14.1 (25, 5–54) | 0.003 |
Duration of ETCO2 elevation above preictal baseline (seconds) | 188.3 ± 432.4 (72, 2–2298) | 353.3 ± 390.6 (181, 11–1473) | 0.031 |
Oxygen saturation nadir (%) | 76.3 ± 9.9 (77, 50–98) | 72.3 ± 11.5 (75, 43–93) | 0.046 |
Duration of oxygen desaturation (seconds) | 93.7 ± 82.2 (79, 4–620) | 115.8 ± 110.1 (93, 8–712) | 0.186 |
Duration of postictal immobility (seconds) | 139.1 ± 411.4 (46, 0–3156) | 200.5 ± 295.7 (76.5, -11–1192) | < 0.001 |