What is the main goal during a seizure?
The goal of treatment in patients with epileptic seizures is to achieve a seizure-free status without adverse effects. This goal is accomplished in more than 60% of patients who require treatment with anticonvulsants.
What is the goal of nursing care for a patient with a seizure disorder?
Nursing care plan goals for patients with seizure includes maintaining a patent airway, maintaining safety during an episode, and imparting knowledge and understanding about the condition.
What is most important in the management of epilepsy?
Usually medication is needed to control seizures and treat epilepsy; these commonly prescribed drugs are called anticonvulsants. Medication alone can’t always stop or reduce seizures. A device called a vagus nerve stimulator may help treat epilepsy if you don’t get relief from medication.
What are nursing priorities after a seizure?
Promote airway clearance. Maintain in lying position, flat surface; turn head to side during seizure activity; loosen clothing from neck or chest and abdominal areas; suction as needed; supervise supplemental oxygen or bag ventilation as needed postictally.
How do you handle a patient having a seizure?
First Aid
- Keep other people out of the way.
- Clear hard or sharp objects away from the person.
- Don’t try to hold them down or stop the movements.
- Place them on their side, to help keep their airway clear.
- Look at your watch at the start of the seizure, to time its length.
- Don’t put anything in their mouth.
What are the main aims in treating minor epilepsy?
The aim of treatment is to stop all of your seizures with the lowest dose of the fewest number of ASMs and with the least side effects. Usually treatment starts using a single ASM at a low dose, which is increased slowly (called titration), until your seizures are controlled.
What is an epilepsy care plan?
A care plan for your epilepsy should be like a ‘road map’ of your condition, and its treatment and management. It should have information about your epilepsy and seizures, and your treatment, including what treatment you are on, any treatments that you are starting or what might be considered in the future.
How do you help someone with epilepsy?
What is a seizure protocol?
Put something soft and flat, like a folded jacket, under his or her head. Remove eyeglasses. Loosen ties or anything around the neck that may make it hard to breathe. Time the seizure. Call 911 if the seizure lasts longer than 5 minutes.
What are your priorities while the patient is having a seizure?
The priorities when caring for a patient who is seizing are to maintain a patent airway, protect the patient from injury, provide care during and following the seizure and documenting the event in the health record.
What are the goals of treatment for epilepsy?
Review of relevant literature suggests at least seven distinct goals of epilepsy treatment to exist: to reduce seizure frequency and severity, to improve function, to enhance quality of life, to promote coping, to improve external circumstances, to prevent premature death, and (in children) to promote growth and development.
What is the nursing care plan for epilepsy in hospital?
EPILEPSY MONITORING UNIT PROTOCOLS A. NURSING CARE PLAN: SAFETY 1. Potential for injury related to seizure activity, secondary to decrease/discontinuance of anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs). 2. Goal: Patient will not sustain any preventable injury during hospital stay. 3. Interventions: a. All four bed rails padded and up at all times except for meal
What is the goal of a seizure telemetry assessment?
Goal: Patient will verbalize understanding of seizure telemetry protocols and will agree to comply with these protocols. Depending on the facility, the patient may be asked to sign the Education Nursing Care Plan.
How does epilepsy affect my quality of life?
But epilepsy can also affect your quality of life, and your family’s, in many ways. Sometimes, this causes more problems than the seizures themselves! Your goals may be different from someone else’s, depending on what’s most important to you.