Convulsion in Children ;Epidemiological Study on a Year in the Pediatric Ward of the University Hospital of Batna

Introduction: Convulsions are the most frequent neurological emergency in pediatrics, with multiple etiologies dominated by febrile convulsions in infants and epileptic seizures in the grandchild.

Objective: to study the epidemiological, clinical and para-clinical profile of convulsions in our department and to compare our results with those of the literature.

Material and methods: Retrospective study on the files of patients hospitalized in the pediatric department of the CHU of Batna for convulsion over a period from 01-11-2015 to 01-11-2016.

Results: Of 3750 hospitalizations the prevalence of seizures was 10.3% with a male-dominated sex ratio at 1.25, the most affected age group is that of less than 04 years.

57.5% were convulsions in a febrile context with a very high frequency of convulsions (36.49%) followed by the practice of lumbar puncture in 36% of the patients the cerebromeninged infection was only found in 6.16% ENT infection was etiology in more than 50% of cases.

For seizures without fever hypocalcemia was the most frequent metabolic cause (3.19%) and epilepsy was the dominant etiology.

Conclusion: Convulsions are very frequent in our service with a notable prevalence of complex febrile seizures whose cerebromeninated infection is a rare cause, this prompts us to reverse the consensus of indication of the lumbar puncture.