Seizure Response
First action when someone is having a seizure
What is put something under their head and remove restrictive clothing?
Anticonvulsant and its prodrug that act on voltage gated Na+ channels
What is phenytoin and fosphenytoin?
Person loses consciousness, falls, stiffens, jerks and lasts less than 3 minutes
What is Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure?
Absence seizure treatment
What is Ethosuximide?
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Next step after ensuring the person having a seizure is safe
What is time the seizure!!!!!!
Medication blocking multiple ion channels and is a teratogen
What is valproate?
Sudden loss of muscle tone
What is Atonic Seizure?
Treatment for myoclonic seizure
What is Levetiracetam?
A urinalysis is ordered
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How you move someone after they have had a seizure
What is roll them on their side?
Medication that must be stopped in a stepwise fashion
What is Lamotrigine?
Brief episodes of unconsciousness usually lasting less than 10 seconds
What is Absence Seizure?
Treatment for Status Epilepticus
What is benzodiazepine or fosphenytoin?
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What is shame based learning?
The final step when someone has had a seizure
What is stay with them until they have recovered and make sure another seizure has not occurred?
Medication that lowers the threshold of T-type Ca 2+ currents and disrupts oscillatory activity
Sudden, less than 100 ms involuntary muscle movement
What is myoclonic seizure?
I have Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures. My medication also treats Complex-Partial Seizures and Trigeminal Neuralgia
What is Phenytoin?
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What is eat breakfast?
Circumstance in which you immediately roll someone on their side during a seizure
What is when fluid or food is in their mouth?
Medication that increases the amount of TIME chloride channels are open by acting on GABA-A receptor subunits
What is Phenobarbital?
Seizure lasting longer than 5 minutes
What is Status Epilepticus?
I have focal seizures. My medication is a derivative of another anticonvulsant
What is Oxcarbazepine?
Vigorous typing .
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