Epidemiology and characteristic study of pediatric patients (0-15 years old) admitted to ICU Hospital Serdang with seizure (Januari 2009 - June 2013)

Ng, Yien Ting and Sulaiman, Mohd Sharil (2013) Epidemiology and characteristic study of pediatric patients (0-15 years old) admitted to ICU Hospital Serdang with seizure (Januari 2009 - June 2013). [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Introduction: Seizure is a common and frightening event in childhood. Objective: The objective of this research is to study the factors and characteristics of pediatric patients that admitted to ICU Hospital Serdang with seizure from January 2009June 2013. Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was carried out. All patients who fulfilled the inclusion criteria are included in this study. Data was collected using pre-designed pro forma by referring to patients' medical records in pediatric ICU Hospital Serdang. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 21 of significant level a = 0.05. Results: The proportion of admission of pediatric patients with seizure to ICU is 16.2 %. Most of the patients are less than one year of age (51.8%), male (72.3%) and Malay (83.1%), generalized seizure (68.7%), febrile (67.5%), admitted due to meningitis (38.6%), no organ failure (89.2%) and nosocomial infection (89.2%), and 26.5% of them have poor outcome. Patients with known case epilepsy (P=0.03) and neurological/ developmental abnormality (p=O.OOI) are at 3.08 and 5.78 times respectively more likely to have poor clinical outcome. The duration of ICU stay is significantly associated with nosocomial infection (OR= 6.46, p= 0.015) with 6.46 times higher risk of nosocomial infection among patients with long ICU stay. Conclusion: Seizure is common among pediatric. Children suffered with underlying epilepsy and neurologic or developmental abnormality prone to have poor outcome. The risk of nosocomial infection is higher for long ICU stay. Keywords: epidemiology, characteristic, pediatric seizure, ICU admission

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Ms. Adni Syuhaida Zon
Date Deposited:	22 Nov 2022 08:18
Last Modified:	22 Aug 2023 01:28
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/275

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