Febrile Seizures without Neurologic Disease Clinical Pathway — Emergency Department, Inpatient, Outpatient Specialty Care and Primary Care
Febrile Seizures without Neurologic Disease Clinical Pathway — Emergency Department, Inpatient, Outpatient Specialty Care and Primary Care
Cohort
Child with Febrile Seizure
This pathway should be used to guide evaluation and treatment of healthy children with the following characteristics:
- Seizure and fever ≥ 38°C or parental report of fever in the past 24 hrs
- Age 6 mos to 5 yrs at the time of first febrile seizure
- Age up to 6 yrs if history of febrile seizures
Exclusion Criteria
- Age < 6 mos or > 6 yrs
- Age > 5 yrs and no history of febrile seizures
- Suspected meningitis/intracranial infection
- Immunodeficiency
- Cardiac, oncological or other complex underlying disease
- Known syndromes associated with epilepsy
- Known neurologic disease, for example:
- Epilepsy
- VP shunt
- Intracranial pathology