Reasons for Prolonged Length of Stay in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit

Highlights • Prolonged length of stay (LOS) >7 days occurred in 38.8% of our EMU admissions. • LOS was significantly longer for patients with epileptic versus non-epileptic seizures. • LOS was longer for patients with more prolonged durations of epilepsy/spells. • A third of prolonged admissions...

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Published in:Epilepsy research 2016-11, Vol.127, p.175-178
Main Authors: Moseley, Brian D., MD, Dewar, Sandra, RN MS, Haneef, Zulfi, MD, Eliashiv, Dawn, MD, Stern, John M., MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Electroencephalography
EMU
Epilepsy - diagnosis
Epilepsy - therapy
Epilepsy monitoring
Humans
Length of Stay
Monitoring, Physiologic
Neurology
Prolonged hospitalization
Resource allocation
Seizures - diagnosis
Seizures - therapy
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Summary:Highlights • Prolonged length of stay (LOS) >7 days occurred in 38.8% of our EMU admissions. • LOS was significantly longer for patients with epileptic versus non-epileptic seizures. • LOS was longer for patients with more prolonged durations of epilepsy/spells. • A third of prolonged admissions were secondary to prolonged time to first seizure. • Other reasons included seizure clusters (6.9%) and status epilepticus (1.6%)
ISSN:0920-1211
1872-6844
DOI:10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2016.08.030