FITS. FAINTS. FUNNY TURNS.

fits-tonic-clonic seizures or epilepsy

what triggers them?

.booze

.lack of sleep

.brain injury at birth

#post-ictal confusion

#head turning

#muscle pain

#cyanosis

#tongue-biting

::take note seizure VS syncope (nausea,sweating,pallor)

faints-syncope:

:.:reminder that

what gives?

.vasovagal i.e taking blood

.hot room i.e church?

.cough

.micturition

-valsalva i.e weight lifting, laughing

.arrythmia - VT,myopathy heart

.autonomic failure

.volume depletion i.e diuretics,dehydration

funny turns~pseudoseizures - psychogenic,dissociative,

what's the story behind it?

.concussive convulsion

.narcolepsy - excessive sleep disorder

.petit-mal attack - removed attention

.temporal lobe seizure - altered sense of surroundings,

.sleep attacks

.mid-age confusion repeating questions

.TIAs ( differential diagnosis to night terrors)

.headaches and blackouts

.:.should you get a casualty - ABC is always the first thing to do! follow up with history(what happened, what the mates see)