Hypoxemia following generalized convulsive seizures: Risk factors and effect of oxygen therapy

Sylvain Rheims¹, Blanca Mercedes Alvarez², Veriano Alexandre²+19

• ¹From the Department of Functional Neurology and Epileptology (S.R., B.M.A., V.A.), Hospices Civils de Lyon and University of Lyon; Lyon's Neuroscience Research Center (S.R., B.M.A., V.A., L.B., P.R.), INSERM U1028/CNRS UMR 5292, France; Hospital of Clinics of Ribeirão Preto (V.A.), University of São Paulo, Brazil; Department of Neurology (J.C., L.V.), University Hospital of Toulouse; Neurology Department (L.M.), University Hospital of Nancy; Clinical Neurophysiology and Epileptology Department (F.B.), Timone Hospital, Marseille; Department of Clinical Neurophysiology (P.D.), Lille University Medical Center, EA 1046, University of Lille2; Department of Neurology (E.H.), University Hospital of Strasbourg; Department of Neurology (V.M.), Hôpital Pellegrin, Bordeaux; Epilepsy Unit, Department of Neurosurgery (F.C.), Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, University Paris Descartes; La Teppe Epilepsy Center (D.T.), Tain l'Hermitage,; Epilepsy Unit (A.C.), Montpellier; Department of Neurology (A.B.), University Hospital of Rennes; Epileptology Unit (V.N.), Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière and Brain and Spine Institute (ICM; INSERM UMRS1127, CNRS UMR7225, UPMC University Paris 06); Department of Neurology (P.K.), Grenoble-Alpes University Hospital, GIN, INSERM U1216, and Grenoble Alpes University; Department of Clinical Neurophysiology (B.D.T.), INSERM U930, University Hospital of Tours; Department of Neurology (P.T.), University Hospital of Nice; Department of Neurology (S.R.), University Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand, France; Department of Clinical Neurosciences (S.R., P.R.), Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland; and Epilepsy Institute (E.H., L.B., P.R.), Lyon, France. sylvain.rheims@univ-lyon1.fr.+1