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Summary: There are several different types of seizures, including petite mal seizures, grand mal seizures and focal motor seizures. Look for signs of seizures, such as shaking, tremors, random ocular motor movement and slurred speech, with help from an EMT in this free video on seizures.
Jon Curtis is a retired EMT from the City of Humble Fire Department in Texas. He has more than 40 years of experience as an EMT, has saved countless lives, and has done everything from...read more
"The symptomology basically varies depending on what type of seizure it is. There's several different types of seizures, usually pre hospital emergency care. We see petite mal and grand mal seizures, every once in a while we'll see a focal motor seizure. With focal motor seizures they're particular localized to one area of the body whether it be the arms, the upper extremities, lower extremities or isolated to various different parts of the body. Petite mal seizures are typically tonic- clonic type seizures that we usually see with the generalize shaking of the body from head to toe. It's usually followed by postictal period. And the same thing with grand mal seizures, although those are typically more violent type seizures than petite mal itself. Seizures include tremors, shaking, random ocular motor movement of the eyes. After the seizure activity's complete and the clonic phase, or I'm sorry the postictal phase, you usually see slurred speech or possible a completely unresponsive patient also followed by possibly slurred speech. Other symptomology can include hypoglycemia. Of course hypoglycemic seizure is usually induce by the hypoglycemia itself."
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