Your Patient Has a History of Epilepsy and Is Experiencing

question 32

Multiple Choice

Your patient has a history of epilepsy and is experiencing loss of consciousness, tonic-clonic muscle activity, and erratic ocular movement. Based on this, you might also expect to find all of the following EXCEPT:

• A) pinpoint pupils.
• B) urinary incontinence.
• C) impaired respiration.
• D) increased oral secretions.

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Definitions:

Physical Stimulus

An external event or factor that influences a physical response or reaction in an organism.

Light

Electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, visible to the human eye and responsible for the sense of sight.

Vision

The ability to see, resulting from the processes of light being detected by the eyes and interpreted by the brain.

Colour

The property of objects as perceived by the human eye and brain due to the way an object reflects or emits light.