Manejo de la primera crisis convulsiva en la atención primaria en salud

Abstract

Seizures are involuntary movements that occur in the body in an altered way in both contraction and relaxation that are produced by a sudden change in brain electrical activity lasting 30 seconds to 2 minutes. This pathology is found in a high frequency in both adult and pediatric emergency areas since most of these patients do not undergo adequate treatment due to a misdiagnosis of the episodes nor have they treated their cause. The treatment in these patients depends a lot on the type of crisis with which they go to the emergency, therefore the rescue of a seizure is the fundamental pillar in the first level of care to in this way safeguard the lives of these patients to be able to refer to a more specialized center where the cause will be treated. OBJECTIVE: To develop an algorithm that serves as a guide to know how to identify and stabilize a patient who presents with a seizure to the first level of health. MATERIALS AND METHODS: this work is about a bibliographic review of different articles and guides found in the PUBMED database, and SCIELO with a quartile one and two with five years old. CONCLUSIONS: the treatment of patients with a seizure should be treated in a more comprehensive way since a seizure can be caused by different etiological factors