Head Injuries: A Case Study

According to the information that provided, it seems like the patient had experienced a seizure episode. Seizures are episodes of abnormal motor, sensory, autonomic, or physic activity (or a combination of these) that result from sudden excessive discharge from cerebral neurons (Hinkle & Cheever, 2014). The patient could have experienced heat intolerance when playing football in the hot afternoon, and lead him to fell down and lose consciousness. Heat intolerance and head injury are considered to be the causes of developing seizures. Other signs and symptoms of a seizure episode include uncontrolled muscle spasms with twitching and jerking limbs, temporary stop breathing, brief blackout followed by a period, which the person does not remember a short time, and shaking off the entire body (NIH, 2015). These clinical manifestations are shown in C.S when he was experiencing …show more content…
EEG will help classify the type of seizures. The patient should be ask if he has any previous head injuries or illness that could affect the brain. Since patient play football, he could have several experienced of head injuries. Additional to these assessments, diagnostic examination included biochemical, hematologic, and serologic studies. MRI would be used to detect structural lesions such as focal abnormalities, cerebrovascular abnormalities, and several degenerative changes (Hinkle & Cheever, 2014). The patient will also be put on telemetry and computerized equipment to monitor the electrical brain activity while the patient pursues his normal activities and analysis. Additional tool can be used in the diagnostic workup, which is SPECT. SPECT help identify the epileptogenic zone so that the area in the brain giving the to seizures can be removed surgically (Hinkle & Cheever,