ABSTRACT
Objective To discuss the application and effect of predictive care in stage divided treatment and salvage of children's persistent status of epilepsy (SE).Methods Sixty-four children with SE were admitted to the First Peoples Hospital of Wenling in Zhejiang Province from December 2014 to December 2016 as the research objects, a controlled study was adopted, in which the stage divided therapeutic method was compared with the conventional method for treatment of SE, and the children were divided into an observation group and a control group, 32 cases in each group. Foresight treatment method was used in the observation group: the first stage of treatment (early treatment or pre-hospital treatment) was intravenous injection of the first-line drugs (benzodiazepines); the second stage of treatment (progressive stage treatment or initial treatment) mainly used epileptic drugs to prevent recurrence; the third stage treatment (referred to after the first-line drug in combination with one second line antiepileptic drug treatment, the disease was still unable to be controlled) adopted the mild hypothermia therapy to reduce the SE attack amplitude and decrease recurrence; in terms of aspects of predictive nursing measures, the respiratory tract nursing, basic nursing, the prediction of complications and their nursing, etc. were implemented. The routine nursing without care about the stages was carried out in the control group. The SE control time, skin lesions, false aspiration, lung infection, tongue bite, cerebral edema, etc. the incidenceof complications were observed in two groups of children.Results The SE control time was significantly shorter in observation group than that in the control group (minutes: 18.13±3.15 vs. 25.19±2.69,P < 0.05), and the incidence of complications was obviously lower in observation group than that in the control group [6.25% (2/32) vs. 28.13% (9/32),P < 0.05]. Conclusion Using different therapy at different stages of children SE combined with predictive care can effectively shorten the SE control time, decrease the incidence of complications and elevate the therapeutic and nursing effects.