As many of you might know, it's quite a maze getting into the city and parking is always an issue. But today, I decided to park in a local area across from the major city streets. So it was all good!
Sometimes, in the pediatric ER, we have suicidal patients, some noncompliant mothers, seizures, swallowed coins and much more! I look forward to my shifts on Saturdays because that's when most of the drama happens.
Today, there were two men who rushed in with a boy who was having seizures. Frantically, they waited as the ER nurses and doctors looked over the child and tried to figure out what was causing his seizures. They faces reflected intensely worried emotions. I was quietly observing, trying not to make it seem obvious that I was interested in what was going on. I hadn't had any surveys so far because every potential patient was either a refusal or just not available. This new emergeny event caught my attention and I wanted to know what they were up to in that small ER room.
I guess I would never know what EXACTLY happened but it got me interested in the causes of seizures in children.
I had an inkling that it could've been a febrile seizure because I overheard that it was accompanied by a fever that the child had the night before. His seizure had lasted about 10 minutes...and I guessed that the child was about 2-3 years of age. He also had taken a shot the day before but that's all I knew.
A lot of things can cause seizures, including infection, drugs, metabolic disorders, medications, disorder in blood vessels, or bleeding inside the brain. I am, by no means, a doctor (yet) but I can hypothesize that it was either due to the shot that he recieved or the fever that he had before due to an infection.
I hope that he recovers and that they quickly find out the reason of his seizure.
Hope you all have an awesome Saturday!
