Status epilepticus

The article Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Status Epilepticus is a report of a case in which an adolescent boy with epilepsy was admitted to the hospital in critical condition because of a prolonged period of status epilepticus. Status epilepticus (SE) is defined as, “An epileptic seizure that lasts more than 30 minutes; a constant or near-constant state of having seizures. Status epilepticus is a health crisis, and requires immediate treatment.” (Medicinenet.com) The adolescent boy had undergone a corpus callostomy, various drug therapies, and even had tried the ketogenic diet but none of these treatments decreased his seizure activity on a long term basis. After about a week in the hospital his condition continued to deteriorate…

Different studies shows that patient socio demographic status are risk factors for epilepsy and/or increase seizure frequency include age, sex, educational status, occupation (working hours)and ethnicity (2, 7, 22-24). However, a cross sectional study conducted in Egypt showed that there is no significant difference in age, sex, age of onset of epilepsy, duration of disease and type of seizure among those who experience seizure and those who don’t but Number of antiepileptic drug…

Epilepsy and the Oral Cavity Epilepsy is a central nervous system disorder (neurological disorder) in which nerve cell activity in the brain becomes disrupted, causing seizures or periods of unusual behavior, sensations and sometimes loss of consciousness (MayoClinic). Diagnosis of epilepsy is not an easy task as it comes in many forms and can range anywhere from a blank stare to full body convulsions, but once it is diagnosed, epilepsy can often be treated with medication and the patient can…

Philosophy on Women Women are seen from many different perspectives by philosophers. Plato, Aquinas, and Aristotle each expressed their opinions on women and women 's’ roles in society differently. Plato believed that women should be treated as property of man and not as individuals. Aristotle taught that women had some use, but are very low class of the society classes compared to the males. Aquinas on the other hand believed and taught that women are not superior to men, but have a…

Each boy on the island arrived with his own status sets, or a grouping of all the positions that individual holds. They all contained the ascribed status of a young boy, English school child, son, etc. However, it truly was the achieved statuses that set them apart. Ralph earned his achieved status of leader when he was elected. He did not let this achieved status alter who he was as a person. On the other hand, Jack someone declared his achieved status of leader of the hunters. He let…

Group processes focus on how individuals interact in groups. Power and justice are the two of predominant orienting frameworks in the group processes. In another way, black people is a group, white people is another group. Therefore, black people want to join in to the white people group to get higher social status and more job opportunities for higher wages, however white people resist black people to join in because the racial problems and the reason for decreasing rivals. That makes white…

It uses ideas like social status, wealth and education to systematically exclude certain groups from obtaining equal diabetes health outcomes. One pathway that SES uses to create disparity in diabetes health is through educational differences. As was seen previously, attaining higher education is associated with better diabetes health outcomes. This is in part because more education leads to more knowledge of diabetes and healthy behaviors in general (Kemper, Savage, Niederbaumer & Anthony,…

I had the privilege to observe in a Capital Area Head Start program pre-kindergarten classroom. This was quite an eye-opening, and valuable learning experience because of the level of diversity that goes on in one of these classrooms. Head Start is a federally funded program that aids low socioeconomic status families in giving their children a safe, learning environment up to two years before they go into the public school setting. Capital Area Head Start (1998) mission statement is “to…

This identity can be analyzed into two different ways: from the gender class perspective and the social class perspective. The gender class perspective is analyzing the animation based on the characters’ genders. The characters have different positions based on their gender such as the work for the particular gender. On the other hand, the social class perspective analyzes Cinderella based on the characters’ economic status and their power. There is no determination on the education level which…

People spend their whole life trying to find their true identity, but what if this identity they have been trying to obtain isn’t actually their own? Issues with identity appear at birth when society labels children as either male or female. Before even beginning to learn how to walk or talk half of their life has been planned out based off of their gender. It is from this point that society begins to shape these children in order to fit a certain identity. Issues with identity stem from…