Crisis Standard of Care: Management of Infantile Spasms during COVID-19

Ann Neurol. 2020 Aug;88(2):215-217. doi: 10.1002/ana.25792. Epub 2020 Jun 8.

Authors

Zachary M Grinspan¹, John R Mytinger², Fiona M Baumer³, Michael A Ciliberto⁴, Bruce H Cohen⁵, Dennis J Dlugos⁶, Chellamani Harini⁷, Shaun A Hussain⁸, Sucheta M Joshi⁹, Cynthia G Keator¹⁰, Kelly G Knupp¹¹, Patricia E McGoldrick¹², Katherine C Nickels¹³, Jun T Park¹⁴, Archana Pasupuleti¹⁵, Anup D Patel², Scott L Pomeroy⁷, Asim M Shahid¹⁴, Renee A Shellhaas¹⁶, Daniel W Shrey¹⁷, Rani K Singh¹⁸, Steven M Wolf¹², Elissa G Yozawitz¹⁹, Christopher J Yuskaitis⁷, Jeff L Waugh²⁰, Phillip L Pearl⁷; Child Neurology Society (Practice Committee and Executive Board) and the Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium (Infantile Spasms Special Interest Group and Steering Committee)

Affiliations

¹ Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
² Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
³ Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
⁴ University of Iowa Hospitals, Iowa City, IA, USA.
⁵ Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron, Akron, OH, USA.
⁶ Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁷ Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁸ UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁹ Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
¹⁰ Cook Children's Medical Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA.
¹¹ Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.
¹² Boston Children's Health Physicians, Hartsdale, NY, USA.
¹³ Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
¹⁴ UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH, USA.
¹⁵ Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.
¹⁶ University of Michigan Pediatric Neurology, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
¹⁷ Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA, USA.
¹⁸ Levine Children's Hospital at Atrium Health System, Charlotte, NC, USA.
¹⁹ Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
²⁰ UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / therapeutic use
Anticonvulsants / therapeutic use*
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections*
Delivery of Health Care
Disease Management
Electroencephalography
Health Resources
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Neurology
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral*
Prednisolone / therapeutic use
SARS-CoV-2
Spasms, Infantile / diagnosis*
Spasms, Infantile / drug therapy*
Standard of Care*
Telemedicine
Tuberous Sclerosis / diagnosis
Videoconferencing
Vigabatrin / therapeutic use

Substances

Anticonvulsants
Adrenocorticotropic Hormone
Prednisolone
Vigabatrin

Grants and funding

U54 HD090255/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States