SIMPLIFIED PPT ON SEIZURE AND ITS MANAGEMENT- BY ANKITA GAUTAM (B.SC. [HONOURS} NURSING )

1. CASE PRESENTATION
ON
“ SEIZURES ”

2. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF BRAIN

3. • Seizures are episodes of abnormal motor, sensory,
psychic, activity (or a combnation of these) that result
from sudden excessive discharge from cerebral
neurons.
• It can involve part of brain or may be the all of the
brain.
is a condition in which a person has
spontaneous recurring seizres caused by chronic
underlying condition.

4.  GENETICS
 INFECTION
 AGE
 ACUTE FEBRILE STATE
 TOXINS
 INJURY
 IDIOPATHIC

6. FOCAL SEIZURES GENERALISED SEIZURE
1. SIMPLE
FOCAL
2. COMPLEX
FOCAL
1.GTC
2.ABSENCE
3.MYOCLONIC
4.TONIC
5.CLONIC
6.ATONIC

19. • THE PERSON USUALLY BECOMES SLEEPY ,
CONFUSED, OR EXHAUSTED MAY COMPLAIN OF
HEADACHE AND NOT BE ABLE TO RECALL THE
EPISODE.
• MUSCULAR FLACCITIDY
• STRIDOROUS BREATHING
• BLADDER OR BOWEL INCONTINENCE

22. ETIOLOGY
GROUP OF ABNORMAL NEURONS THAT SEEM TO UNDERGO SPONTANEOUS
FIRING
ACTIVITY SPREADS TO WHOLE BRAIN THEN GENERALISED SEIZURE OCCURS

23. SCAR TISSUE IN AREA OF BRAIN FROM WHICH THE EPILEPTIC ACTIVITY
ARISES
ITERFERES NORMAL CHEMICAL AND STRUCTURAL ENVIRONMENT OF BRAIN
NEURONS
MORE RAPID FIRING

26. • RESECTING OF EPILEPTOGENIC TISSUE : In
focal seizures of Temporal lobe origin to resect
epilepsy causing tisue.
• SUCTIONING OF CORPUS CALLOSUM : For
DROP ATTACKS.
• HEMIPHERECTOMY or CALLOSTOMY : In
intractable unilateral multifocal epilepsy a/w
infantile hemiplegia.