Status epilepticus

Soon after, three more young female patients, each with similar symptoms to those of Susannah’s were referred to Dalmau; all had teratomas and all suffered behavioral and personality transformations that deteriorated into destructive neurological damage. Suspecting that the teratomas played a critical role in this unfolding medical discovery, doctors removed the teratomas and administered immune-suppressing medication, resulting in the rapid recovery of three out of the four women (Braverman 3).…

Personal Statement “Children are the key to a nation’s future and its best hope.” said one of my high school teachers. As I look back today and think of these words, it seems a reality. And, yes, a pediatrician truly holds the key to safeguard this “hope” by doing early intervention, prevention and treatment of pediatric diseases. My association with pediatrics is from my childhood days. I would often interrupt my mother during her labor room calls and would often ask my father various…

Ketamine is classified as a general anesthetic, and has conventionally been used as such since its FDA approval in 19701. It is a noncompetitive NMDA antagonist that blocks glutamate and produces a cataleptic state, or a state of trance or seizure with a loss of sensation and consciousness accompanied by rigidity of the body. It dissociates the limbic and thalamocortical systems, effectively dissociating the CNS from outside stimuli. Per the manufacturer’s package insert, it is to be dosed by…

Their participants included patients with alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome and participants whose amnesia was caused by anoxia, encephalitis, bilateral thalamic infarction, and status epilepticus following head injury (Gabrieli et. Al, 1997). Participants were shown word pairs and then were given a word-pair identification test; they were asked to identify word pairs presented for a certain duration or select which of three words they…

Would we live without the brain? The heart is the most important organ in our body. Some people think this is true, but they’re not a hundred percent wrong because we need the heart to be alive. The organ that is also an important organ to the human body is the brain, to our body besides other important parts like the heart, lungs, and other organs. It’s used for more than one role like the other type of organs. The brain helps with hearing, seeing, learning, feeling, and ect. We would be lost…

My day started off with meeting the two individuals I would be spending most of my day with which was Kat and Will who were both paramedics. Kat took me to the ambulance and showed me the things we would need in each case that we would go to and no matter what the case was the two things they would need is the medicine bag and the stretcher. Then we went through the ambulance and she showed me where most of the equipment was and the medications. As she was showing them to me she was checking…

Introduction Lorazepam is a kind of benzodiazepine in terms of pharmacological class, It is also an anxiolytic drug in terms of the therapeutic class.It is mainly used to treat anxiety and insomnia for adults.Since anxiety and isomnia is getting more common nowadays, It is nesseary to be introduced to more people.In this article, you will know more about the clinical trial ,the pharmacology ,and the pharmacokinetics of Lorazepam. Disscussion of a clinical trial for Lorazepam Lorazepam has a…

Introduction Matthew 17:15-16 states, “Lord, have mercy on my son. He has seizures and suffers terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. So I brought him to your disciples, but they couldn’t heal him” (NLT). Epilepsy is a lifelong disorder that causes seizures. It affects approximately sixty-five million people across the world. Of that sixty-five million, three million people reside in the United States. Epilepsy is the fourth most prevalent neurologic disorder in the world…

1. On presentation, this patient’s overdose has resulted in the following symptoms: bradycardia, bradypnea, hypotension, hypothermia, hypoxia, and non-responsive to pain. For this patient, an endotracheal tube would be placed to protect the airway and start mechanical ventilation, since the patient is having difficulty maintaining spontaneous ventilation. This will also protect the airway from potential aspiration. Continuous oxygen therapy at 100% to help improve the patient’s hypoxia.…

Many people associate epilepsy and seizures with violent movements with muscle contractions, but there are actually many types of seizures that one can have. As stated by the Mayo Clinic (2015), “Epilepsy is a chronic disorder of the central nervous system in which nerve activity in the brain becomes disrupted, causing seizures or periods of unusual behaviour, sensations, and sometimes loss of consciousness” (Para. 16). Epileptic seizures are generally caused by abnormalities in the brain that…