Restraining Patients When They’re Seizing
Seizures can be problematic, especially when they take place inside a hospital. Often, a seizure can occur due to a medication or treatment issue along with a potential accident that takes place. Since seizures are not unheard of during things like operations, there are sometimes restraints put on patients that are the most likely to do something like this. People can even have a seizure during a coma, particularly in cases of medical comas. In fact, studies have been done on this to prove how often this can occur. Most assume that you’ll be put into a medical coma after things like a traumatic brain injury or TBI only.
This is not exactly true. While yes, you can be for stuff like this, there are many other reasons to do it too. Yet 10 to 20% of those who are in the intensive care unit (ICU) after things like cardiac arrests or resuscitation have seizures or show signs of brain activity indicating this. Due to the massive amount of seizures a hospital sees, one would assume doctors on Grey’s Anatomy would know how to handle them. Rather, they have been known to hold and restrain everyone who is going into a seizure for several reasons. The best action to take is to turn someone on their side and put a pillow (or arm) underneath their head, yet there are even better ways to do this in a hospital!!