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Anti-Convulsants or Anti-Epileptic or Anti-seizures Drugs
By: Muhammad Aurangzeb
Lecturer-INS/KMU
Objectives
By the completion of this section the learners will be able to:
•Discuss the pharmacokinetics, side effects and adverse reactions, therapeutic plasma phenytoin level •Identify the contraindications and drug interactions.•Explain the nursing interventions, including client teaching related to the use of anticonvulsants.•Calculate the drug dosage accurately for oral and parental anticonvulsants drug.
Anticonvulsants Drugs (ACDs) •Anticonvulsants or Antiseizure agents (also known as antiepileptic drugs) are drugs used to manage seizures, the most prevalent neurological disorder.
Basic definitions
•Seizure: the clinical manifestation of an abnormal and
excessive excitation and synchronization of a population of cortical neurons •Epilepsy is a collection of different syndromes, all of which is characterized by sudden discharge of excessive electrical energy from nerve cells located within the brain.•Status epilepticus is a state in which seizures rapidly recur with no recovery between seizures. It is potentially the most dangerous of seizures.
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