Which seizure activity would the nurse associate with a patients jerky muscle movements of the extremities?

migraine

Unilateral headache proceeded by nausea, vomiting, and photophobia are the clinical manifestations of migraine. Prescribers use drugs like corticosteroids in the treatment of migraine headaches. Therefore the nurse anticipates that the patient has a migraine. Paralysis of the limbs, blurred vision, tinnitus, and ataxia are the clinical manifestations of multiple sclerosis. Stabbing headache, swelling around the eye, nasal congestion, and flushing or pallor are the clinical manifestations of cluster headache. The manifestations of Parkinson's disease are rigidity, tremors, and bradykinesia.

generalised seizures

In a generalized, or grand mal, seizure, the patient may experience incontinence along with jerking, or tonic-clonic, movements of the entire body. An aura is an individualized, subjective auditory, visual, olfactory, or taste hallucination that may precede a seizure. Postictal is the period of recovery after a seizure and may include confusion and sedation. Potentially isolated to one side of the brain, a simple partial seizure remains partial or focal in nature, or it may spread to involve the entire brain, culminating in a generalized tonic-clonic seizure. Simple partial seizures generally do not involve loss of consciousness and rarely last more than one minute.

Which seizure activity would the nurse associate with a patient's jerky muscle movement?

Clonic seizures cause repeated jerking movements of muscles on both sides of the body.

What is the jerking of the limbs phase called in a seizure?

Tonic-clonic seizures involve both tonic (stiffening) and clonic (twitching or jerking) phases of muscle activity.

Which potential disorders would the nurse associate with the jerking movement of a patient's eye when looking to the left?

Nystagmus is an eye condition characterized by rapid, jerking eye movements.

What are the 4 types of seizures?

There are four main types of epilepsy: focal, generalized, combination focal and generalized, and unknown. A doctor generally diagnoses someone with epilepsy if they have had two or more unprovoked seizures. Medication is the most common treatment, and two-thirds of adults with epilepsy live seizure-free because of it.