Any sign of seizure warrants a trip to an Emergency Room and not an Urgent Care. When might a trip to a pediatric urgent care be a good choice? If your child has a fever along with cold symptoms, it may warrant a trip to the urgent care if it will be a day or two before you can see your primary care doctor.…
On 2/25/2016, CM met with the client to complete Bi-Weekly ILP Review. Client was was alert, satisfactorily groomed, and casually dressed. She was cooperative and appropriate in the meeting. She didn’t made eye contact. Client reported she is happy because she met a new acquaintance and they went out for breakfast this morning.…
Jackson was a five year old Caucasian male that arrived to the emergency department 3 minutes after experiencing a tonic-clonic seizure. During the first experience, I felt like I did not do enough nursing interventions. I identified the patient/family and received legal consent. I performed an assessment and documented vitals. During the seizure I placed the patient on his side and he was placed on a nonrebreather mask.…
There is a member of the women’s soccer team that has an undiagnosed exercised induced disease. She has been to a vast amount of doctors and the only thing they have been able to do is to rule out seizures. Although, seizures may have been rules out she still presents with very seizure-like symptoms when it happens. She starts by losing cognitive function and no one is able to get her to respond to his or her attempts at getting her attention. She also has a tendency during this stage to start hitting her legs, in the belief that this somehow will help or just a twitch that comes with the episode.…
An infection, such as encephalitis, meningitis, or a history of such infections. If you have a injury causing you to have a lack of oxygen. A stroke can also be a huge cause to why you have seizures now. Congentital and developmental abnormalities can also be a cause of seizures also due to blood vessel malformation in the brain, genetic syndromes, and brain tumors. You can have a metabolic disturbance which is very low blood levels of glucose, sodium, calcium, and magnesium.…
• Focal seizures without losing conscious (simple focal seizures): These seizures don't make you lose consciousness. They may change emotions or alter things’ appearance, smell, feel, taste or sound. They may also conclude in involuntary muscle spasms in your arms, or legs, and sudden sensory symptoms such as feeling tingly, dizzy, or seeing flashing lights. (Neurology and Neurosurgery, John Hopkins…
These seizures affect the whole body which can result in losing consciousness and having muscle rigidity. Another type of seizure that can occur is called status epilepticus. This is explained as being life threatening and is one experiences a continuous state of seizure activity which can last longer than several minutes. Some more symptoms are that this disease can be causes by mutations in the EPM2A gene or the NHLRC1 gene (Lafora progressive n.d.).Dysfunction in the EPM2A gene will prevent cells from producing function laforin (Lafora progressive n.d.). The NHLRC1 gene mutations prevents the production of working malin (Lafora progressive n.d.)…
1) Does age of a patient play a role in how much of his or her brain causes seizures and what parts of their brain cause seizures? I remember learning that Dr. Ben Carson did a hemispherectomy (one of the hemispheres of the brain or half of the brain is removed) in a little girl (age 4-5) who had seizures and that the girl had no brain impairment later in life. 2) Can a patient who has an MRI scan done on them experience negative side effects due to the MRI equipment or procedure? I know that exposure to too much X-ray radiation can be detrimental to one's health. Since MRI scans produce better images of the brain than CT scans, which use X-ray particles, I was wondering there are patient related reasons when doctors may opt to order a CT…
When you start getting quoted for auto insurance in Maitland, it's important to know the factors used by insurance companies. Several medical conditions could affect your premiums in a negative way. By knowing about them, you can counteract the cost of insurance in other ways. Diabetes If you have diabetes, you run the risk of having hypoglycemic episodes.…
An epileptic seizure can present itself in something as simple as a blank stare or it may be as severe as a full body tonic-clonic convulsive state. Most seizures cause no lasting harm and range in length from 30 seconds to 2 minutes, however, if a seizure lasts longer than 5 minutes, or the patient is having multiple seizures in a row without gaining consciousness in between, it…
The epilepsy is basically a chronic disorder that further results in unprovoked, recurrent seizures. A seizure is a sudden rush of electrical activity in the brain. There are two main types of seizures. Generalized seizures affect the whole brain. Focal, or partial seizures, affect just one part of the…
The factors determine the severity of the persons condition and the impact it has on there life. D. Summarize - There is no cure for epilepsy but medicines can control seizures for most people. (Symptoms) A. Transitional – So now that you know what epilepsy is, I am going to explain some of the symptoms that lead to having a seizure. B. Evidence - According to mayoclinic.org, doctors generally classify seizures as either focal or generalized, depending on how abnormal brain activity begins.(2017) C. Analysis - Seizures can affect any process of your brain coordinates, signs and symptoms may include confusion, a staring spell, uncontrollable jerking movements of the arms and legs, loss of consciousness, or anxiety.…
The brain tissues begin to swell, and swelling can compress the brain and blood vessels. Lack of blood flow and oxygen can eventually cause a stroke. Some patients may or may not experience loss of consciousness and…
A year ago I was diagnosed with simple and complex partial seizures of the temporal lobe. The kind of seizures I have are hard to describe but its kind of like being on a roller coaster. You're strapped in and you can feel the tension as you know its going to happen, and you know its going to be scary. Once you reach the top of the roller coaster you get a weird feeling in your stomach, just like you do before your seizure happens . Sometimes you experience a very strong, awful feeling of Déjà vu like you been through the whole ride already even though you haven't.…
Alcohol withdrawal, bites or stings, brain infection, brain injury during childbirth, brain defect present at birth, choking, drug abuse, drug withdrawals, electrolyte imbalance, electric shock, epilepsy, extreme high blood pressure, fever, head trauma, kidney or liver failure, low blood glucose levels and strokes can lead to seizures. There are more, but these are the most common. Some times, especially in young children they may not know what caused the seizure. (Nall, Rachel) Just watch out for these symptoms and you may be able to detect when someone is about to have a…