Epilepsy in Primary Care : A Team Approach to Effective Management

Baddeley, Linda, Ellis, Simon J.

ISBN 10: 0750649542 / ISBN 13: 9780750649544

Editore: Elsevier Health Sciences, 2002

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• Titolo: Epilepsy in Primary Care : A Team Approach to Effective Management
• Editore: Elsevier Health Sciences
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0750649542
• ISBN 13: 9780750649544
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: quarta edizione
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

* A practical guide for all nurses involved in primary care * Looks at patients in their wider social role and identifies strategies for coping with the difficulties that epilepsy produces * Authorship of a specialist epilepsy nurse and a consultant neurologist illustrates an effective team approach to nursing the patient with epilepsy

Contenuti

1) An Introduction to Epilepsy: the Condition and the Care
2) The development of epilepsy services
3) Implications for lifestyle
4) Exploring the nurse's role in epilepsy care
5) The anatomy and physiology
6) The diagnosis, classification and investigations
7) Special issues in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy
8) Treatments used in the care of people with epilepsy
9) Epilepsy in children and adolescents
10) Sexuality and Planing a family
11) Epilepsy in the elderly
12) Epilepsy in the learning disabled
13) Audit.
14) Appendices.
1. Use of rectal diazepam
2. Information required by Neurologist at out patient appointment
3. Information required by EEG department
4. Sample patient record card
5. Epilepsy profile record sheet
6. Questions and answers - Informing the patient
7. First aid during seizures
8. Useful addresses
9. Bibliography