You are caring for ER, a 28 year old female. She and her husband were having breakfast when she suddenly stopped responding to him. Her husband states, "She just stared into space and kept saying, ‘It’s like this, it’s like this, it’s like this.’" When her husband put his hand on her arm, she hit him. He called 911 and they are now in the emergency department and she is being evaluated for seizure disorder. Required:
a. What kind of seizure might ER have had? Explain your answer.
b. What assessments and diagnostics will be used to rule seizure disorder in or out?
c. ER’s husband says, "It can’t be seizures. She didn’t fall on the ground and bite her tongue." How will you explain seizure disorder to ER and her husband?
d. If ER is diagnosed with seizures, what will you teach ER and her husband about managing her seizure disorder?

Explanation:

1. what ER is experiencing can be regarded as simple partial seizure. This is why, in this type of seizure she still maintained awareness. This kind of seizure can cause someone to act the way she did by staring into space and continuously repeating the same thing.

2. The assessments and diagnostics are:

3. Her husband clearly thinks that all kinds o seizures are the same. because she did not fall fall or bite her tongue he doesn't think she had a seizure. He has to be educated to know that seizures are of different types and each of these types have different symptoms. He should know that people can lose consciousness in one type and not lose consciousness in  the other, they may even be able to talk, and remember things during the attack.

4. If she is diagnosed to have seizures, I am going to teach her  and her husband to manage the condition by;

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