Pharmacology: Chapter 14 Drugs for the Tx of Seizure Disorder

Question 1

What is Epilepsy?

Answer 1

Recurrent attack of involuntary behavior caused by electrical activity in the brain

Question 2

What is each episode of epilepsy called?

Answer 2

A seizure

Question 3

Majority of epileptic patients have what type of epilepsy?

Answer 3

Idiopathic ( cause unknown)

Question 4

Seizures are divided into two large groups, those groups are?

Answer 4

Absence Seizures

Tonic Clonic Seizures

Question 5

What is an Absence Seizure?

Answer 5

Where there is a brief loss of consciousness with little movement (lasts a few seconds)

Question 6

What is a Tonic Clonic Seizure?

Answer 6

Longer periods of loss of consciousness and major activity of the large muscles of the body

Question 7

What does Tonic mean?

Answer 7

Stiffening of limbs

Question 8

What does Clonic mean?

Answer 8

Limbs and face begin to jerk

Question 9

What are Status Epilepticus seizures?

Answer 9

Continuous tonic clonic seizures that last longer than 30 minutes

Question 10

What are partial (Focal) seizures?

Answer 10

Seizures that involve activation of only part of the brain (last a few minutes)

Question 11

What type of partial (Focal) seizures are there?

Answer 11

Simple

Complex

Question 12

What is a simple partial seizure?

Answer 12

Where consciousness is not impaired

Question 13

What is a complex partial seizure?

Answer 13

Where consciousness is impaired