As a greater percentage of people are enjoying the open sea whether as a cruise passenger or as a crew member of a sailing vessel. We will be encountering the possibility of managing a possible seizure. Your best approach to on-board medical care is understanding what seizures are how they relate to epilepsy and how to best treat or care for such a patient under your care.
Seizures are often very frightening to on-board medical personnel.
The generalized convulsive seizure is the most common seizure seen. Generalized seizures involve the whole brain. Partial or localization-related seizures are seizures that arise from a specific part of the brain. The most common partial seizure involves the temporal lube seizure. Epilepsy is a disorder characterized by recurrent seizures which are not the result of a specific, immediate insult to the brain, such as alcohol withdrawal, drug intoxication or a low serum sodium.