A Seizure Care Pathway in the Emergency Department: Preliminary Quality and Safety Improvements

Table 1

List of admitting diagnosis.

Underlying diagnosis of study cohort	Numbers
Preexisting diagnosis of primary generalised epilepsy	37
Preexisting diagnosis of localisation related epilepsy	60
Generalised status epilepticus	7
Nonepileptic seizures	11
Collapses	34
Antiepileptic medication-related toxicity	3
Significant past medical history of head injury	6
Known primary CNS tumours	8
Known CNS metastasis	6
History of stroke/TIA	8
Stroke presenting as seizures	2
Known history of learning disability	5
Dementia	5
HIV positive	2
Hepatitis B/C positive	10
Schizophrenia	1
Hyponatraemia	11
Sepsis with symptomatic seizure	1
Sepsis with rigors misidentified and referred as seizure	3
Post-operative seizures	3
Seizure after significant physical trauma	1