Portable Epilepsy Seizure Warning and Emergency Response Armband Design

Epilepsy, also known as Sara in Turkish, is a neurological disorder that is very common in the community. It can have an impact as significant on the quality of life of individuals and cause injury or fatal consequences. The most important symptom of epilepsy is the patient's seizures. In case of seizure, changes in consciousness, behaviour, sensation in motor movements and autonomic functions are observed. As a result, involuntary contractions and movements occur. Epilepsy is a generally unknown disorder in populations with first aid deficiency. Various non-medical interventions are applied during the patient's seizure and these wrong practices adversely affect the life of the patient. Therefore, it should be known by the people around it how the emergency intervention should be done during an epileptic seizure. In this study, a medical device was designed to alert people to epileptic patients during seizures and tell them what to do. With this device, people around the person having an epileptic seizure will be told what should be done with the sound warnings from the device and the patient will be able to survive the seizure in a healthy.