Demographic, Clinical and Etiological Profile of Children Admitted with Febrile Seizures in a Tertiary Care Hospital of North India

Abstract

This retrospective hospital-based study was conducted in Paediatric emergency from 1st June 2022 to 30th November
2022 to study the clinical demographic and etiological profile of paediatric patients admitted with febrile seizures.
Out of total enrolled 243 children, 153(63%) were male and 100(37%) were females. Mean age of the patients was
23.5 months. Mean time interval between onset of fever and occurrence of seizures was 18 hours. Overall, 170(70%)
patients had simple seizures. Only 85(35%) patients had positive family history and 73(30%) had recurrence of
seizures during the same episode of illness. Acute respiratory infection was the commonest cause for febrile
seizure in 190(78%) children.