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Utility of Laboratory Testing for Children With Seizure in Emergency Department

NCT01123746 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2010-05-14

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Summary

Objective: To evaluate the predisposing factors associated with abnormal laboratory findings in patients who came to the emergency room due to a first seizure.

Methods: Patients were divided into separate groups based on normal and abnormal laboratory results for sodium, potassium, calcium, and glucose. The difference in age, gender, whether this was the first attack, whether there was fever, whether there were gastrointestinal symptoms, the duration and pattern of the seizure, and whether there was a seizure at the emergency department, were evaluated.

Conditions

  • Seizure

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Taipei Medical University WanFang Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hsiao-Feng Chou, M.D. · Pediatrics department, Wanfang hospital

Eligibility

Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-10-31
Primary Completion
2009-12-31
Completion
2010-04-30

Countries

  • Taiwan

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