Emily Hooper

Neurology nurse, North Downs Specialist Referrals, Brewerstreet Dairy Business Park, Brewer Street, Bletchingley, Surrey, UK RH1 4QP

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Emergency management of the seizuring patient

A seizure is a clinical manifestation of excessive hyperexcitability in the cerebral cortex. There is a lot of electrical activity going on in the brain and it is not being coordinated in the way it...

Nursing the seizure patient

Seizure is a broad term, but in veterinary medicine most commonly refers to a clinical manifestation of excessive hyperexcitability in the cerebral cortex (Meland and Carrera-Justiz, 2018). This...

Treatment of acute idiopathic polyradiculoneuritis with intravenous human immunoglobulin therapy

On presentation the patient was bright, alert and responsive but unable to stand or support their own bodyweight. Clinical examination was unremarkable aside from moderate dental disease and the...