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Consciousness is often impaired following epileptic seizures in children. Investigators at a neurology referral center in the U.K. assessed the duration of seizures and time to recovery of consciousness (Glasgow Coma Scale score ≥15) in 90 children (age range, 1–16 years).
Of 110 seizure episodes, 59 were febrile seizures with a median duration of 2.5 minutes and a median recovery time of 18 minutes (range, 3 minutes to 9 hours). Ninety percent of children with febrile seizures recovered within 1 hour. The 25 seizures in children with preexisting central nervous system (CNS) disorders (remote symptomatic) lasted a median of 8 minutes, with a median recovery time of 1.25 hours. The 19 idiopathic seizures lasted a median of 5 minutes with a me…