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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epilepsia. 2016 Jan 14;57(3):412–417. doi: 10.1111/epi.13312

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