TREND ANALYSIS OF ANTIEPILEPTIC PRESCRIPTIONS IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL OF ASANSOL SUB-DIVISION
Utpal Bhui*, Soumen Mondal, Subhajit Sarkar, Dr. Kalyan Kumar Sen, Dr. Avik Das**
ABSTRACT
The study was conducted on a prospective mode and was based on the prescription obtained from the records of the pharmacy department of respective health care establishment. The study spanned through a period of 3 months starting from Jan 2022 to March 2022. Formal permission for the study has been obtained from the respective IEC. Prescription of patients turning up for their first visit were only considered for the study .Patients having active comorbidity or on medication for recurrence or relapse of any other comorbidity were excluded. Epilepsy emerges as a prevalent problem in the district of West Bardhaman fostering generation of more prescriptions for male patients in the age group of 19-60 years. Tonic clonic seizure found to be the chief type prevalent in the district, got treated with monotherapy comprising of valproic acid in majority of the cases. Combination therapy has also been chosen in quite a few cases. The study thus paves the way for analysis of the indicated trend further with additional end points being considered.
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