Seizures

Question 1

What is the mnemonic for history taking regarding the type of seizure?

Answer 1

I- incontinence
O- oral trauma
D-describe the seizure

Question 2

What is the mnemonic for history taking regarding the duration of seizure?

Answer 2

M- were they given any medication
A- amount of seizures?
D- duration

Question 3

What is the mnemonic for arrival to a seizure?

Answer 3

E- are they epileptic?
L- how long are their normal seizures?
F- how frequent
T- normal trigger?

Question 4

What is the mnemonic for causes of seizures?

Answer 4

V- vascular
I- infections
T- trauma
A - AV malformation
M- metabolic
I- idiopathic
N - neoplasms (brain tumour)

Question 5

What are the symptoms of a focal seizure (simple partial)?

Answer 5

Awake and aware, altered sensations, some limb twitching may occur

Question 6

What are the symptoms of a focal seizure (complex partial)?

Answer 6

No sense of awareness, random body movements/twitching/fiddling, random noises

Question 7

What are the symptoms of a tonic clonic seizure?

Answer 7

patient becomes unconscious, uncontrollable muscle jerks and spasms occur throughout the body, incontinence and oral truama may occur, usually followed by a postictal period

Question 8

What are the symptoms of an absent seizure?

Answer 8

staring blankly, fluttering eyes, unresponsive, limb jerks

Question 9

What are the symptoms of a myoclonic seizure?

Answer 9

A sudden full body twitch last a few seconds

Question 10

What are the symptoms of a atonic seizure?

Answer 10

all of the patient’s muscles suddenly relax, usually causing the patient to fall to the ground