Quantcast
Channel: Neurology – Jail Medicine
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 6 View Live

Pseudoseizures—the Right Approach

I recently had to mediate a complaint from a jail deputy about a jail nurse. The jail deputy had called the nurse in to evaluate an inmate who was having seizures. The nurse said that they were...

View Article



Pseudoseizures–Achieving Accurate Diagnosis

You are called by jail deputies to see a patient who had a short seizure and now is having another. The patient has only been in jail for a couple of days. He did not mention a seizure disorder at …...

View Article

Ammonia Capsules Are a Great Tool for Assessing Pseudoseizures

The question of whether a seizure-like event is a true epileptic seizure or some type of pseudoseizure is often very hard to sort out. Oftentimes (in fact, most of the time) these events do not happen...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 6 View Live




Latest Images