Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Recurrent seizures
- Anatomy
- Functional
- Medial side
- Lateral side
- Terminology
- Seizures
- Epilepsy
- Convulsions
- An abnormal, sudden, violent, involuntary contraction
of the muscles most typically seen during seizures.
- A disorder characterized by 1)recurrent
seizures 2)unprovoked by an acute insult.
- A sudden, uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the
brain, causing changes in: behavior, movements, or
feelings & in levels of consciousness.
- Causes
- Idiopathic
- Vascular diseases
- Congenital
- Trauma
- Types
- Signs and symptoms
- Sudden
falls
- Jerky movements
- Confusion
- Anxiety
- Management
- Myoclonic
- Tonic-clonic
- Absence
- Clonazepam
- Ethosuximide
- Valproic acid
- Phenytoin
- Carbamezepines
- Clonazepam
- Lamotriagine
- Valproic acid
- Prognosis
- better when there is
early detection and
diagnosis of the
condition, in addition
to giving the effective
treatment.
- Psychosocial
impact
- Family impact
- Self depression
- Employment
- Women
- Education
- Epidemeology
- Stages
- Aura
- Ictus
- Post-ictus
- Status epilepticus
- Life-threatening, acute prolonged epileptic crisis.
- Defined by its duration - as continuous seizures
occurring for longer than 30 minutes.
- Investigations
- EEG
- Blood glucose
- CBC
- Head CT