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Article: Pediatric Corner: Try these tips for pediatric seizures.
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- ED Nursing
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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Pediatric Corner
Try these tips for pediatric seizures
Do you know how to care for a pediatric patient who is actively seizing? If a child has had a seizure at home, they will frequently seize again in the ED, warns Nancy Blake, RN, MN, CCRN, CNAA, director of critical care services at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles.
Here are interventions to take if this occurs:
Address appropriate initial management of the seizing child. Regardless of what caused the seizure, you must do three things: establish a patent airway, provide effective ventilation, and obtain vascular access for anticonvulsant administration, according to Laura M. ...