{"id":153,"date":"2020-06-11T03:48:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T03:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=153"},"modified":"2020-06-17T03:13:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T03:13:35","slug":"infantile-spasms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/infantile-spasms\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantile Spasms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Infantile_Spasms\/\">Infantile Spasms<\/a> is a new CPG that has been reviewed by the CPG Committee. It will be considered for PIC endorsement on 18 June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Infantile spasms (IS) are a type of seizure, and are the most common severe epilepsy in infants<\/li>\n<li>IS are typically sudden, brief, bilateral and symmetric contraction of the muscles of the neck, trunk and extremities, occurring in clusters<\/li>\n<li>IS are often the presenting feature of a significant underlying neurological disorder<\/li>\n<li>Prompt diagnosis and treatment are critical to minimise the developmental impacts<\/li>\n<li>First-line treatment is usually high dose prednisolone<\/li>\n<li>High dose prednisolone may mask responses to infection, including fever. Signs of sepsis in a child on high dose prednisolone should be managed as per the S\u00ad\u00adepsis CPG<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new CPG will be considered for PIC endorsement on 18 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}