Seizures I have chosen the topic Seizures for my essay because I believe people need to understand this condition and find a cure! I started having seizures February 4th‚ 2010 and it forever changed my life. I have always lived and breathed baseball. When my seizures started‚ they came out of nowhere. It was scary‚ frustrating and I couldn’t understand why it had to happen to me. I spent several days in the hospital and they diagnosed me with Cortical Dysplasia which is basically a neurological
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Search & Seizure in the Public Schools To fully understand the role and related responsibilities of search and seizure in the public schools‚ the Constitutional rights of the students and case law must be examined. The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution states: The right of the people to be secure in their persons‚ papers‚ and effects‚ against unreasonable searches and seizures‚ shall not be violated‚ and no Warrants shall issue‚ but upon probable cause‚ supported by Oath or affirmation
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rights were violated and fought back. They stated that the searches were against them‚ similar to a “personal attack” rather than an attack on their information they held within their homes. This is an extremely early case dealing with search and seizure‚ if not one of the first cases‚ in which the individuals being searched stood up for themselves because they felt the actions taken against them were unjust. However‚ since these cases are dated so far back in history it is hard to understand whether
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has been interpreted to: require that searches and seizures be reasonable; and prohibit warrants except those issued upon probable cause. However‚ as with any rule‚ there are exceptions. The exceptions to the warrant requirement will be discussed below. In interpreting the Fourth Amendment‚ the courts have balanced the individual’s right with what is good for the rest of society. Fourth Amendment rights are therefore not absolute. Seizures and Searches
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Basic search and seizure warrant requirements A search occurs when an expectation of privacy that society considers reasonable is infringed by a governmental employee or by an agent of the government. Private individuals who are not acting in either capacity are exempt from the Fourth Amendment prohibitions. A seizure refers to the interference with an individual ’s possessory interest in property. To meet the definition of an unreasonable seizure‚ the property ’s owner must have had a reasonable
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Epilepsy is also known as seizure disorder. People are usually diagnosed after having two seizures that was caused by a known medical condition such as extremely low blood sugar or withdrawal from alcohol. “A seizure is a sudden surge of electrical activity in the brain that usually affects how a person feels and acts for a short period of time.”(www.epilepsy.com/101/ep101_seizure). These sudden surges happens in the outside rim of the brain called the cortex. Seizures can be mild or extremely
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Epilepsy Epilepsy is a brain disorder in which a person has repeated seizures (convulsions) over time. Seizures are episodes of disturbed brain activity that cause changes in attention or behavior. Causes Epilepsy occurs when permanent changes in brain tissue cause the brain to be too excitable or jumpy. The brain sends out abnormal signals. This results in repeated‚ unpredictable seizures. (A single seizure that does not happen again is not epilepsy.) Epilepsy may be due to a medical condition
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness is an autobiography by Susannah Cahalan documenting her month-long stay in a hospital‚ where later she had no memory of being. Before her hospital visit‚ Susannah found two red bumps on her arm‚ but being in New York City‚ she assumed that they were bedbugs. She became obsessed with the idea that her apartment was infested‚ but an exterminator confirmed that she didn’t have them. Next‚ Susannah began to have aching pains in her body‚ along with nausea and migraines
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The narrative of My Sister’s Keeper alternates between first-person accounts by the novel’s different characters. The bulk of the story takes place in the present‚ in a one-and-a-half week stretch of time. Sara Fitzgerald‚ a former attorney and current stay-at-home mom‚ narrates the remainder of the story from different points in the past but moving gradually toward the present. One final chapter‚ the epilogue‚ occurs in the future. In 1990‚ doctors diagnose Sara’s two-year-old daughter‚ Kate‚ with
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Date/Time of Prescribed Order Safe Dose Client Dose Usual Dose Nursing Implications (VS‚ labs‚ drug-drug/drug-food/drug-herb interactions) Yes Clonazepam (Klonopin) 1 mg PO BID Prophylaxis of: Petit mal‚ Lennox-Gastaut‚Akinetic‚ Myoclonic seizures. Panic disorder with or without agoraphobia. Unlabeled Use: Uncontrolled leg movements during sleep. Neuralgias. Infantile spasms. Sedation. Adjunct management of acute mania‚ acute psychosis‚ or insomnia. 11/13/13 Safe dose: less than 4
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