Clinical Study
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 |
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