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Local epilepsy advocates have developed emergency medical cards with a step-by-step guide for people who encounter someone experiencing a seizure. People with epilepsy can get seizures at any time ...
Some countries prohibit people who have ever had a seizure from driving. In these countries, it is common for people with epilepsy to hide their condition from authorities in order not to be denied a driver's license. [5] Other places allow those who have had seizures to drive after a seizure-free period, which ranges from six months to a year.
An MBTA bus driver in Quincy, Mass., suffered a seizure while driving through Quincy Point over the weekend, prompting at least one passenger to help him stop the bus, the Patriot Ledger reported.
Emergency service response codes are predefined systems used by emergency services to describe the priority and response assigned to calls for service. Response codes vary from country to country, jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and even agency to agency, with different methods used to categorize responses to reported events.
In the United States, the median income for people with epilepsy is 93% that of all people. The unemployment rate for people with epilepsy has been reported to be between 25% and 69%. The high school graduation rate has been reported at 64%, compared with an overall national average of 82%. [2]
Six reported dead in Ohio high school bus crash. Wednesday 15 November 2023 11:00, Mike Bedigan. Six people have been confirmed dead – including three teenage students – following a serious ...
The epileptic seizure in the vast majority of pediatric epilepsy patients is ephemeral, and symptoms typically subside on their own after the seizure comes to an end, but some children experience what is known as a “seizure cluster," in which the first seizure is followed by a second episode approximately six hours later.
A seizure is a sudden change in behavior, movement or consciousness due to abnormal electrical activity in the brain. [3] [6] Seizures can look different in different people.. It can be uncontrolled shaking of the whole body (tonic-clonic seizures) or a person spacing out for a few seconds (absence seizure