Types
These seizures look like daydreaming and last 5-10 seconds.
What are absence seizures?
A common cause of seizures.
What are genetics, brain injury, infection, metabolic issues, and brain abnormalities?
First step(s) if a student has a seizure.
What is ensuring safety, clearing the area, and protecting the head?
Sudden burst of abnormal electrical activity in the brain.
What is a seizure?
A seizure with stiffening muscles followed by jerking movements.
What is Tonic-clonic?
Term for no known cause.
What is idiopathic?
Legal requirement for students in MN with seizure disorders.
What is an SAP and training?
A condition involving having two or more unprovoked seizures. (Most common)
What is epilepsy?
A seizure that begins in only one part of the brain.
What is a focal seizure?
A perinatal factor that increases the risk of seizure disorders.
What are complications during birth?
Classroom triggers.
What are flashing lights, stress, lack of sleep, overheating, and sensory overload?
School document outlining a student's seizure types, triggers, responses, and emergency plan.
What is a seizure action plan (SAP)?
A seizure that causes sudden muscle loss and collapse.
What is an Atonic seizure?
A diagnostic tool for finding electrical patterns in the brain.
What is EEG?
Reasons for documenting seizures.
What is tracking frequency and patterns?
Phase of a seizure that refers to the recovery period.
What is postictal?
A seizure that involves brief jerks or twitches of muscles.
What are myoclonic seizures?
Contagious seizure disorder.
What is NOTHING?
(Trick question, epilepsy and seizure disorders are not contagious!)
Free space:)
What is YOU WIN!
Phase of a seizure that refers to the warning signs.
What is the prodrome phase?