Children withseizures presenting toaccident and emergency

withseizures. Children presenting with Objective-To analyse thediagnoses made seizures havea potentially broadrangeof in children presenting to an accidentassociated problems thatrequire appropriate andemergency(A&E)department with management. Suchananalysis wouldbeuseful seizures. forplanning district A&E andpaediatric Methods-All children whopresented toa services. district general hospital A&E department withseizures overa 1yearperiodwere Methods identified. A retrospective reviewofA&E We studied allchildren presenting asan andhospital records wasperformed one emergency within oneyeartoadistrict general yearafter theywerefirst seen.Thetypes hospital A&EDepartment serving apopulation ofseizure, investigations performed, treat-of70000children. Children presenting asan ment given, andtherangeofassociated emergency, whether self referred orreferred by diagnoses wereascertained.