Epilepsy Definition, Etiology and Clinical Manifestations
Nursing Care Plan for Seizure Disorders Definition Epilepsy is a chronic brain disorder characterized by the onset of the symptoms that come in attacks, repeatedly, which caused abnormal electrical discharges off nerve cells of the brain, which is reversible with various etiologies (Arif, 2000) Etiology The cause of the seizures of epilepsy are largely unknown (idiopathic) often occurs in : Birth trauma, neonatal asphyxia. Head injury, infections of the nervous system. CO poisoning, intoxication drugs / alcohol. Fever, metabolic disorders (hypoglycemia, hypocalcemia, hyponatremia). Brain tumors. Vascular abnormalities. (Tarwoto, 2007) Etiologic factors affect the determination of prognosis. The main cause, is ; idiopathic epilepsy, remote symptomatic epilepsy (RSE), acute symptomatic epilepsy, and epilepsy in children based on the damage to the brain during perinatal or antenatal. In the classification there are two prominent types of epilepsy, is ; idiopathic epilepsy and RSE. From th