Seizure Action Plan! - PediaCast 372

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4.8 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Dr Dara Albert stops by the PediaCast Studio to remind us of the ins and outs of epilepsy, including types of seizures, methods of diagnosis, management options and seizure prevention. She also introduces the concept of the seizure action plan—a simple document that can make a big difference for parents, teachers and caregivers of epileptic children. We hope you can join us!

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0:00.0	This is PediCast.
0:20.6	Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.
0:24.8	And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.
0:29.9	Hello, everyone, and welcome.
0:32.0	Once again to PDACast.
0:33.9	It's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.
0:36.8	This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from the campus of Nationwide Children's Hospital,
0:41.6	which happens to be America's largest children's hospital.
0:45.8	We're in Columbus, Ohio.
0:47.0	It's episode 372 for March 29th, 2017.
0:52.1	We're calling this one seizure action plan. I want to welcome everyone to the program.
0:58.2	So by the name of the episode, you probably get the idea that we're talking about seizures today.
1:04.2	And we've talked about seizures in the past, although the last time we covered sort of the nuts and bolts of seizures was a couple of years
1:12.2	ago at least. So I think an update will be handy just in terms of exactly what constitutes
1:18.8	a seizure. What is epilepsy? So how do seizures and epilepsy relate to one another. What causes seizures?
1:28.1	How do we diagnose them?
1:29.1	How are they treated?
1:30.5	And then we're going to talk about seizure action plans, which we have not covered in the past.
1:36.9	And these are a pretty cool thing.
1:38.7	It's basically a document that a child who has a seizure disorder would have, either on them or really for the caregiver.
1:49.0	So it could be a piece of paper that they have someplace safe, but that's readily available to look at in the case of an emergency.
1:57.5	Because you tend to sort of panic and freak out when a child has a seizure. And it's
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