Question

You are the nurse on a medical unit taking care of a 40-year-old man, who has been admitted with peptic ulcer disease (PUD) secondary to chronic alcoholism. You enter the client’s room and find him having a grand mal (tonic-clonic) seizure.

1. List 5 things you would do. ( 3 points)

2. The 3 main phases of a seizure are the preictal, ictal, and postictal.

Differentiated between the 3 phases, and list clinical symptoms you may observe when a patient is having a seizure. (3 points)

Seizure activity does not appear to be subsiding and he is becoming cyanotic. The physician is notified and orders diazepam (Valium) 5 to 10mg IV until seizure activity?

3. What is the rationale for giving diazepam?(2 point)

4. What is status epilepticus?(2 point)

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