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CompletedNCT01123746

Utility of Laboratory Testing for Children With Seizure in Emergency Department

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
500 (estimated)
Sponsor
Taipei Medical University WanFang Hospital · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Objective: To evaluate the predisposing factors associated with abnormal laboratory findings in patients who came to the emergency room due to a first seizure. Methods: Patients were divided into separate groups based on normal and abnormal laboratory results for sodium, potassium, calcium, and glucose. The difference in age, gender, whether this was the first attack, whether there was fever, whether there were gastrointestinal symptoms, the duration and pattern of the seizure, and whether there was a seizure at the emergency department, were evaluated.

Conditions

Timeline

Start date
2009-10-01
Primary completion
2009-12-01
Completion
2010-04-01
First posted
2010-05-14
Last updated
2010-05-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01123746. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.