The nurse is collecting data on a 7-year-old child who is suspected of having episodes of absence seizures
Which of the following questions to the mother will assist in providing information that will identify the symptoms associated with these types of seizures? 1. "Does twitching occur in the face and neck?"
2. "Does the muscle twitching occur on one side of the body?"
3. "Does the muscle twitching occur on both sides of the body?"
4. "Does the child have a blank expression during these episodes?"
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Rationale: Absence seizures are very brief episodes of altered awareness. There is no muscle activity except eyelid fluttering or twitching. The child has a blank facial expression. These sei-zures last only 5 to 10 seconds but may occur one after another several times a day. Myoclonic seizures are brief, random contractions of a muscle group that can occur on one or both sides of the body. Simple partial seizures consist of twitching of an extremity, the face, or the neck, or the sensation of twitching or numbness in an extremity, the face, or the neck.
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