Early Clinical Variables Associated With Refractory Convulsive Status Epilepticus in Children

Katrina Peariso1, Ravindra Arya2, Tracy Glauser2

  • 1From the Department of Neurology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (K.P.), University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, OH; Division of Pediatric Neurology (R.A., T.G., P.S.H.), Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, OH; Division of Neurology (N.S.A.), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology (C.B.A., Justice Clark, M.G.-L., K.K., T.L.), Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA; Department of Child Neurology (CBA), Hospital Universitario La Paz, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain; Pediatric Neurology Unit (M.A.-G.), Department of Pediatrics, Hospital Universitari Son Espases, Universitat de Les Illes Balears, Palma, Spain; Section of Neurology and Developmental Neuroscience (A.A., J.R.), Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Department of Pediatrics (B.L.A., K.E.C., A.W., K.W.), University of Arizona College of Medicine and Barrow's Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital; Department of Neurology and Pediatrics (J.N.B., H.G.), University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville; Division of Pediatric Neurology (Jessica Carpenter), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore; Center for Neuroscience (W.D.G.), Children's National Hospital, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, DC; Instituto de Pediatría (M.G.-L.), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia; Servicio de Neuropsiquiatría Infantil (M.G.-L.), Hospital Clínico San Borja Arriarán, Universidad de Chile, Santiago; Ruth D. & Ken M. Davee Pediatric Neurocritical Care Program (J.G.), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; Division of Pediatric Neurology and Epilepsy (Z.G., B.O.M.), Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York; Division of Pediatric and Developmental Neurology (R.M.G.), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; Department of Pediatrics (L.H.), British Columbia Children's Hospital, the University of British Columbia, Canada; Division of Child and Adolescent Neurology (R.K., A.V.-A.), Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Division of Pediatric Neurology (S.A.K., E.H.K., C.E.S.), Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Section of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (Y.-C.L.), Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; Department of Pediatrics (T.M.), Division of Neurology and Epilepsy, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL; Division of Pediatric Neurology (M.A.M., D.T.), Duke University Medical Center, Duke University, Durham, NC; Department of Neurology (L.M., E.N., M.S.W.), Division of Child Neurology, Seattle Children's Hospital, WA; Department of Pediatrics (A.P.O.), Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus; Division of Neurology (E.T.P.), Department of Pediatrics, Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, Canada; Division of Neurology (J.P.), Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland; Division of Child Neurology & Institute for Genomic Medicine (T.S.), Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital; and Department of Anesthesiology (R.C.T.), Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA. peariska@ucmail.uc.edu.

Neurology
|June 9, 2023
PubMed
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