A comparative study between EEG Done Early and Late in Complex Febrile Seizures in Paediatric Age Group at a Tertiary Health Care Centre

Abstract

Introduction: Paediatric febrile seizures represent the most common childhood seizure disorders. Febrile seizures are defined by the International League Against Epilepsy as “a seizure occurring in childhood after 1 month of age, associated with febrile illness not caused by an infection of the central nervous system, without previous neonatal seizures or a previous unprovoked seizure, and not meeting criteria for other acute symptomatic seizures. Materials and Methods: This is a Prospective Comparative study. The study was conducted on 70 children admitted in the Department of Pediatrics at a Tertiary Care Teaching hospital for Complex febrile seizures, aged 3months to 5 years of age, who were diagnosed, evaluated with EEG, and treated for the complex febrile seizure; with a follow up after 2 weeks of the seizure episode, with a repeat EEG in the child. Results: Total no. of children enrolled in this study are 70. In these children; the comparison between early and late findings of EEGs were analysed and no statistically significant difference (p= 1.00) was found between the two Electroencephalograms performed early or late in the children with complex febrile seizures enrolled in our study. Conclusion: Our study concludes that there is no difference between an EEG performed early or an EEG performed late in children with complex febrile seizures, reflecting probable unnecessity in timing of the EEG in children with complex febrile seizures.