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This class of medication used as an anticonvulsant because it is a skeletal muscle relaxant has sedative properties and patients should not engage in potentially hazardous activities after receiving them.
What are benzodiazepines?
What is a pain assessment tool?
This lab value(s) should be monitored when a patient is taking valproic acid for their seizure disorder.
What are liver function test (panel) due to possible liver toxicity?
This substance should be educated for a patient to avoid using while taking phenytoin.
What is alcohol?
Putting up the side rails and helping with ambulation should be part of this when a geriatric patient returns from the PACU and received a narcotic as a postoperative analgesic.
What are nursing actions as part of the plan of care?
A patient is at risk of developing this if suddenly stops their anti-seizure medication.
What is Status epilepticus?
Daytime drowsiness and sedation are adverse effects of this class of medication.
What are hypnotics?
What is preventing a pregnancy/using reliable contraception?
This traditional antiepileptic medication can cause blood dyscrasias but likely used because the seizure activity has been identified as being caused in one area of the patient's brain.
What is carbamazepine?
This medication might prevent an acute migraine attack, but needs to be taken at least 24 hours apart from triptans.
What is ergotamine?
This should be taught to patients taking opioid analgesics due to causing CNS depression and orthostatic hypotension.
What is making position changes slowly?
This class of medications are often called this, and are serotonin receptor agonists, which treat migraines.
What are triptans?
This medication class induces paralysis and have no sedative effects at all, and a sedative or analgesic should be prescribed as an adjunct.
What are neuromuscular blocking agents?
This is the reversal agent for narcotics.
What is naloxone?
The nurse should monitor the patient for respiratory depression, bradycardia, and hypotension.
This medication is used to prevent absence seizures.
What is ethosuximide?
What is gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)?
A personal or family history of a high fever related to anesthesia is always needed to be assessed prior to receiving anesthesia because it places a patient at risk for this condition.
This is a priority of care when a patient has a seizure and already is free from items around which can cause harm.
What is place the patient on their side?
This is a nonbarbiturate anesthetic which allows a patient to appear awake but in fact is unconscious and has no response to painful stimuli.
What is ketamine?
This is the reversing agent for benzodiazepines by recognition site on the GABA/benzodiazepine receptor complex.
What is flumazenil?
This medication is often called "Milk of amnesia" and is an intravenous anesthetic medication often used during a short surgical procedure.
What is propofol?
This medication will be used if a depolarizing neuromuscular junction blocker as adjunct to another anesthetic.
What is succinylcholine?
This narcotic can be given via IV, orally (lollypop), and transdermal.
What is fentanyl?
This medication need to be given immediately once malignant hyperthermia is identified in a patient who has received a NMJ blocker.
What is dantrolene?
Please also review these topics as well.
Be able to identify what are the neurotransmitters which create acute central nervous system (CNS) responses.
What medication/medication classes are used to achieve balanced anesthesia.
What interventions should the nurse include for creating a plan of care for a patient who has a history of tonic-clonic seizure disorder.