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FIRST AID IX: SEIZURES
First aid for seizures involves responding in ways that can keep the person safe until the seizure stops by itself. Here are a few things you can do to help someone who is having a generalized tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizure:
- Keep calm and reassure other people who may be nearby.
- Prevent injury by clearing the area around the person of anything hard or sharp.
- Ease the person to the floor and put something soft and flat, like a folded jacket, under his head.
- Remove eyeglasses and loosen ties or anything around the neck that may make breathing difficult.
- Time the seizure with your watch. If the seizure continues for longer than five minutes without signs of slowing down or if a person has trouble breathing afterwards, appears to be injured, in pain, or recovery is unusual in some way, call 911.
- Do not hold the person down or try to stop his movements.
- Contrary to popular belief, it is not true that a person having a seizure can swallow his tongue. Do not put anything in the person's mouth. Efforts to hold the tongue down can injure the teeth or jaw.
- Turn the person gently onto one side. Preferably on the right side in recovery position. This will help keep the airway clear..
(Recovery position)
- Don't attempt artificial respiration except in the unlikely event that a person does not start breathing again after the seizure has stopped.
- Stay with the person until the seizure ends naturally and he is fully awake.
- Do not offer the person water or food until fully alert
- Be friendly and reassuring as consciousness returns.
- Offer to call a taxi, friend or relative to help the person get home if he seems confused or unable to get home without help.
Here are a few things you can do to help someone who is having a seizure that appears as blank staring, loss of awareness, and/or involuntary blinking, chewing, or other facial movements.
- Stay calm and speak reassuringly.
- Guide him away from dangers.
- Block access to hazards, but don't restrain the person.
- If he is agitated, stay a distance away, but close enough to protect him until full awareness has returned.
Consider a seizure an emergency and call 911 if any of the following occurs:
- The seizure lasts longer than five minutes without signs of slowing down or if a person has trouble breathing afterwards, appears to be in pain or recovery is unusual in some way.
- The person has another seizure soon after the first one.
- The person cannot be awakened after the seizure activity has stopped.
- The person became injured during the seizure.
- The person becomes aggressive.
- The seizure occurs in water.
- The person has a health condition like diabetes or heart disease or is pregnant.
Modified from www.cdc.gov/epilepsy/basics/first_aid.htm
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Medical Committee
Anjuman-e-Asghari 2012
These names are for your information only please do not contact them in medical Emergency Call 911 or your doctor or your Clinic.
If you have a medical problem to discuss please email female or male doctor and you will be contacted.
Ansar Ahmed MD. MRCP (UK): Neurologist
ansarahmed@comcast.net
Home: 763-478-6406
Cell: 612-207-3043
Fatima Jaffer: BS, RN, CNP: Registered Nurse, Certified Nurse Practitioner-Pediatrics
fsjaffer@yahoo.com
Cell: 612-385-4191
Amir Monzavi OD: Doctor of Optometry
a.monzavi@yahoo.com
Cell: 612 483-1691
Abdulhussein Nathani: MD Hospitalist
amnathani@comcast.net
Home: 763-550-2955
Cell: 763-300-9677
Zahra A Nathani: MHA (Master of Health Administration)
zahara.nathani@gmail.com
Home: 763-550-2955
Cell: 763-300-9089
Shabnam Sabur: BS, RN: Registered Nurse
stsabur@gmail.com
Home: 763-780-5411
Cell: 763-300-1075
Mohamed Remtulla
mremtula@comcast.net
Home: 763-535-7006
Cell: 763-226-0528
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