Descriptive epidemiology and health resource utilization for status epilepticus in the emergency department in the United States of America

Seizures represent approximately 1% of emergency department (ED) visits and, among those, approximately 6% are convulsive status epilepticus (SE) [1]. SE is one of the most common neurological emergencies, affecting 17-23/100,000 children per year [2 –4] and 10-17/100,000 adults per year [3–5].
Source: Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research