General medicine blog -5
A 61 year old man with seizures and altered sensorium. Hi, I am Sainath Reddy, 3rd semester medical student.This is an online elog book to discuss our patient's health data after taking his/her consent.This also reflects my patient centered online learning portfolio. Case Scenario A 61 year old man came to hospital on 20th August due to seizures and altered sensorium. Chief complaints - seizures - altered sensorium for 2 hours - 1 episode of vomiting - brief loss of consciousness History of present illness - patient was apparently asymptomatic 3 years ago, then he developed weakness, for which he was diagnosed with hypertension and was advised to take tablet TELMA - AM, but he took the medication irregularly. - he was fine till 20th August when he had dinner and took 2 doses of hypertension medication following which he suddenly developed seizures, altered sensorium for 2 hours and brief loss of consciousness. - he previously came to the OPD on 3rd August with complaint of a les