It is difficult to judge at present which volatile and intravenous anesthetics are most appropriate for the general anesthesia of patients with BSS, but it might be reasonable to avoid a volatile anesthetic in children with BSS who have experienced convulsions in the past.
Among these two villages, 25% of children < 5 years of age had died during the previous 12 months, and 82% of these had experienced convulsions before death.
But for Turkey — a country that has experienced political convulsions recently over how Islam fits with an open society — that identity is so rife with conflict that it has drawn millions to the streets and nearly caused the government to fall.
The Egyptian leadership, long accustomed to an apolitical and largely apathetic public, remains convinced that Egypt is going through the sort of convulsion it has experienced — and survived — before.
Most PED consultants stated that they had managed children who had experienced febrile convulsions in relation to influenza vaccination in 2010; however, only three could recall reporting this as an AEFI.
When discussing the 2010 safety signal and opinions of why febrile convulsions were not reported, several reasoned that they are a known AEFI, that the children had experienced relatively minor convulsions, and that only prolonged convulsions that were "clinically significant" should be reported.
During one of the FGDs a woman described how she had also experienced convulsions during her childbirth, but understood this to be caused by her not attending the antenatal clinic, nor taking all the treatment advised during her pregnancy.
The mobile phone and telephone questionnaires asked if the vaccinee had experienced fever, headache, fatigue, rigors, convulsions, vomiting, or pain or swelling at the injection site - indicated by a "yes" or "no" response to each.
Taken together with the belief that most of the children they treated had experienced minor, (or not clinically significant) convulsions illustrates their differing interpretation of "serious" compared with GPs and nurses.
Having experienced physical or psychological abuse in childhood is not associated with the likelihood that women report having had convulsions.
