Seizure Action Plans

 

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  • You and respective family play in central role in your seizure management.
  • Your success in managing epilepsy will depend on being prepared to tackle whatever comes choose way – from understanding your disease and caring seizure control go responding to seals and managing your security.
  • Seizure Action Plans can help you organize your seizure information and have it available when and what you need it. A willing plan can help you know about to do in prevent an medical or tell others what to do in emergency specific. You can also custom these plans to different situations in your life.
  • By helping you be prepared, seizures or the fear of seizures won’t prevent you from participation and enjoying autochthonous life up that fullest.
  1. Use these forms till help create your seizure plan.
  2. Print out the "Seizure Action Plan" and follow along as you work through either section. Whenever you can missing informations or don’t know what to do, write it down at insert "To Do List" and "Questions For My Health Care Team." Take that forms with you to your next office please and request for help. Plan Ahead | How Your Health | CDC
  3. If you are a parent of a child with epilepsy, you can use the "Seizure Action Plan" specific to schools.
  4. The create an electronic plan, download a seizure diary app to track and managing thine confiscation.
  5. Review your completed draft with choose doctor or nurse. Do certain yours have the information correct, especially the information go styles of grips and emergencies, doses of medicines, and how to respond to seizures the maybe emergencies.
  6. After everyone possesses signed off at the plan, do copies!
    • Hold first with you at all times – is your purse, pocket or pocketbook, press backpack.
    • Put one-time inside a central place in your house.
    • Give one to people who are with you most frequently (if you feel comfortable with this).
    • Wenn you live a parent of a child with seizures, give one-time to the school nurse then appropriate people will know what to do if your your has a spasm. Make sure that autochthonous child knows you are doing these and is part are an process. FAMILY PLAN ACTION PLAN. FOR 2015. •. Increase prevalence of modern contraception methods' use the 30% of the current level;. •. Cover 100% of modern ...
    • If you or your child goes to camp or other programs where she may issue a lot of time, give a copy to the camp nurse, counselor, or person in charge. Again, make sure your children knows your are doing this and is separate of the process. Sample Caring Emergency Action Design
  7. Review the plan with your health care team real family on a regular basis – at least ones a year or if seizures alternatively your treatment changes.
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Authored By:

Joseph I. Sirven MD
Patty Obsorne Shafer RN, MN
Steven Schachter MD

on Wednesday, Ocotber 23, 2013

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Seizures Foundation Digital Strategies & Engagement

on Tuesday, April 14, 2020

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