Publications by authors named "C Damien"
Background: Status Epilepticus (SE) is a neurological emergency with high mortality rate that often requires admission in Intensive Care Units (ICU). Several factors of worse outcome have been identified in prior studies. The aim of our study was to determine the mortality in ICU and in the ward in patients with SE admitted to an ICU and to identify risk factors of mortality.
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- * A significant increase in the use of second-line immunotherapies (like anakinra) and the ketogenic diet was observed from 2022 to 2023, with 69% of patients receiving second-line immunotherapy compared to 40% before 2022.
- * Early administration of certain therapies, particularly anakinra and tocilizumab, was linked to shorter durations of status epilepticus, suggesting a potential avenue for future research on treatment timing and patient outcomes.
Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES) is a subset of new onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) that involves a febrile infection prior to the onset of the refractory status epilepticus. It is unclear whether FIRES and non-FIRES NORSE are distinct conditions. Here, we compare 34 patients with FIRES to 30 patients with non-FIRES NORSE for demographics, clinical features, neuroimaging, and outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Purpose: Depth electroencephalography (dEEG) is an emerging neuromonitoring technology in acute brain injury (ABI). We aimed to explore the concordances between electrophysiological activities on dEEG and on scalp EEG (scEEG) in ABI patients.
Methods: Consecutive ABI patients who received dEEG monitoring between 2018 and 2022 were included.
Advanced practice nurses constitute a new professional group within the French health care system. Advanced practice nurses specialise in one of five disciplines including Psychiatry/Mental-Health. This specific discipline is strongly marked by stigmatising representations by healthcare users and other health professionals (including other advanced practice nurses), whose consequences have a deleterious effect.
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