Evaluation of patients admitted to pediatric emergency outpatient clinic with non-traumatic neurological complaint

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Pediatric Emergency Outpatient Clinic are the units where treated the entire range of emergent and urgent medical conditions. Patients present with a wide range of complaints. Determining the general distribution, frequency and density of Pediatric Emergency Outpatient Clinic applications is of great importance in order to make appropriate future plans. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the clinical features of patients presenting with non-traumatic neurological complaints.MATERIALS and METHODS: The files of the patients who applied to the Pediatric Emergency Outpatient Clinic within one year were evaluated retrospectively. Patients with a known neurological disease who presented to the Pediatric Emergency Outpatient clinic with non neurological complaints, those in the neonatal and trauma patients were not included in the study.RESULTS: It was found that the main complaint of 628 of the patients who applied to the Pediatric Emergency Outpatient Clinic within a year was neurological symptoms. % 50,3 of the patients were found as girls and %49,7 as boys. Seizure was the most common neurological complaint. It was found that %83,1 of the patients who presented with seizures for the first time presented with a febrile seizures and %16,9 with febrile seizures. Status epilepticus rate was found to be %4,5 in patients presenting with seizuresCONCLUSIONS: Seizure was the most common non-traumatic neurological presentation to Pediatric Emergency Outpatient Clinic. We believe that updating knowledge and skills on emergency approach to seizures in Pediatric Emergency Outpatient Clinic will increase the quality of healthcare services to be provided.