Seizure-Free Epilepsy Lab Report

Mrs. Dey reported she had been extremely sick with the anti-seizure medications and her primary care advised her to stop the current medication and go into the hospital. She was hospitalized overnight in observation and Dr. Hardy requested she come into his office the following Monday, September 11, 2017. Due to the unexpected appointment, I had a scheduling conflict and my colleague Laurie Wawrzynaik RN, BSN, MA, attended.

Epilepsy is a medical ailment in which nerve cell activity in the brain is disturbed, causing seizures. Epilepsy consists of many levels of severity; there are staring spells on the lower end, and Grand Mal seizures on the higher end. Cheyenne is on the lower end with staring spells, memory loss, and involuntary talking it’s called Partial Onset Seizures; she has the potential that it can have it turn into Grand Mal seizures at any point in her life. On the path to discovering her epilepsy, it changed her and her family’s lives forever.

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A 29-year-male was suffering from idiopathic generalized epilepsy which usually occurred at night for 2 years. The patient had history of febrile seizure. His seizure was controlled with phenytoin (PHT) 200 mg daily but 3 months back he had 2 seizures because of drug default. He was prescribed oxcarbazepine 600 mg daily and PHT was increased to 300 mg. Three months later, he developed urticarial skin rash all over the body. Phenytoin and oxcarbazepine were stopped and he was referred to our hospital. On examination, he had fading skin rash. He was prescribed LEV 500 mg twice daily but on 9th day of LEV, he again developed morbilliform pruritic rash. Levetiracetam was replaced by clobazam 10 mg daily. One month later, he had a generalised tonic

This paper is on epilepsy and seizures. The human brain is the source of all human epilepsy. (Steven C. Schachter, Patricia O. Shafer, Joseph I. Sirven, 2013) What is epilepsy? Epilepsy is sometimes referred to a seizure disorder, though not all seizures are related to epilepsy. According to the website Stony Brook Medicine, the reason a seizure occurs is because of an unexpected surge of electrical activity in the brain. (Stony Brook Medicine, 2014) Due to the overloading of electrical activity, it causes short-lived disturbance in the messaging system between the brain cells. The word epilepsy approaches from a Greek word 'epi' signifying 'upon or above' and the Greek word

There is 2 type of seizures. The Epileptic Seizures and the Non-Epileptic Seizures (NES). There are different types of epileptic seizure, but they all start in the brain. Whereas, NES do not star in the brain. NES include seizures that are caused by some condition such as hypoglycaemia, or a change to the way the heart is functioning. Also, some infants have ‘febrile convulsions’ (jerking movements) when their body temperature is high.

Benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS) is one of the more common epileptic disorders in children. It is also known as Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. Onset occurs between the ages of 3 to 13 and BECTS will run its course by adulthood.

This is called postictal period (an ictus is a seizure). The recovery period is nessacary for the brain to recover. The recovery period could last anywhere from seconds, to minutes, to hours, even days. It all depends on the part of the brain affected during the seizure. In addition to if the person is taking anti-seizure medication. The person’s level of awareness improves like a person waking up from anesthesia after an operation. These are some other symptoms listed below you may experience.

A seizure is caused by a sudden burst of abnormal electrical and chemical activity in the brain. This activity temporarily interrupts normal brain function. A seizure can cause:

The audit aimed to examine parental satisfaction of various aspects of the service and to review the seizure outcomes (aim 1). Overall, 100% of participants were satisfied with the care and agreed that enough information on treatments were given by the department. Responses to the satisfaction of the overall care focused on appraisal of the various doctors and healthcare professionals. Satisfaction of the treatment outcome (81.8%) was high, with 63.6% reporting an improvement in seizure frequency and 54.5% a reduction in seizure severity, since being under the care of the epilepsy surgery pathway at the KCH.

Many epilepsy patients, especially in developing countries, can’t afford current seizure monitoring devices. One of the main priorities of the neural cap monitoring system is to offer an economically feasible device to epilepsy patients, in specific, epilepsy patients in developing countries. Subsequently, many Epilepsy Monitoring Units (EMU) are high cost, and rely in only one biomarker to detect when a seizure is occurring [2][3][4][5]. For example, the EMOTIV EPOC+, an EEG data sensor, offers an advanced brain computer interface at a starting price of $799.00 [5]. This product only focuses on EEG signals and doesn’t rely on other epilepsy biomarkers to correlate its readings. Another product, The SAMi Sleep Monitoring System, have a

A seizure is another synonym for the term epilepsy. It is the 4th most common neurological problem in US. More than 3 million on an average are experiencing epileptic seizures at any point. While the other more frequent mental issues are Alzheimer’s and migraine problems. The frequency of seizures, their timings of occurrences is unknown and unpredictable. About in 70% of the cases these can be controlled and cured to a large extent with prescription medication and prevents a number of deaths. Using medication is the first thing that is preferred and suggested by physicians to control seizures before going for surgeries. There are various causes behind the frequent episodes of

Partial epilepsy ( focal epilepsy): This type of seizures begins locally. In this type the initial neuronal discharge originates from a specific limited cortical area. It can further be classified as:

Pediatric epilepsy, which affects approximately 1% of U.S. children1, is one of the main contributors to avoidable hospitalizations and emergency department visits.2 Poor seizure control and repeat admissions not only increase demand on health care providers, but they negatively affect long-term seizure control3 and place a significant financial4 and emotional5 burden on patients and families. Inadequate education may be responsible for many of these unnecessary admissions. In fact, one study showed that only 29% of caregivers of children with epilepsy knew the names and doses of their child’s medications.6 By improving patient education, we may be able to improve self-management and reduce health-care utilization. In other diseases, educational

Epilepsy Research Paper People most often associate violent twitching, falling to the floor and drooling with epilepsy. However the described event is only one kind of an epileptic seizure, which is called a tonic-clonic seizure. There are many other kinds of seizures, and each has different sets of signs and symptoms. During generalized seizures the whole brain is affected and the initial symptom is loss of consciousness. This category includes such seizures as absence seizure, myoclonic seizure, and atonic attack.