Seizure emergency code strategy: Improving treatment times and hospital outcomes for patients with urgent epileptic seizures
The seizure code shortens the time to treatment, reduces the length of hospital stay, decreases the risk of inappropriate benzodiazepine use, and lowers both the in-hospital seizure recurrence and in-hospital mortality among patients with urgent epileptic seizures.
Authors
- Camilo Espinosa‐Jovel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5268-1141)
- Fidel E Sobrino-Mejia
- Natalia Valencia‐Enciso (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9653-0991)
- Juan Vergara-Palma
- Sandra Riveros
- Alberto Velásquez
Institutions
- Universidad de La Sabana (CO)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Epileptic Disorders
- Published
- 2024-08-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/epd2.20273
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.93