LV is a 19 yo male recently diagnosed with grand-mal seizures.
1) If you were prescribing the patient’s medication, what would you try first and 2nd if the first line
was not adequately preventing recurrent seizures? What would you monitor for efficacy and side
effects for the medication you started him on?
2)He was diagnosed with grand-mal seizures after being brought into an ED in status epilepticus.
What mediation would you try first to stop the acute seizure? What are the monitoring parameters of efficacy and side effects of it?
3)What are some causes of drug induced/chemical induced seizures that as the APN you need to rule out?
