Page 10--Tuesday, August 4, 1981-The Michigan Daily
Jim Brady suffers
'grand mat' seizure

WASHINGTON (AP)-White House
press secretary James Brady suffered
a major seizure yesterday, a new and
worrisome side effect of the head
wound he suffered in the assassination
attempt on President Reagan March 30.
The "grand mal" seizure struck
Brady shortly after he had breakfast in
his George Washington University
Hospital room, deputy press secretary
Larry Speakes said.
DOCTORS immediately treated him
with intravenous medication and
anesthesia, Speakes said.
At midafternoon, physicians at the
hospital reported Brady was still under
anesthesia, a statement issued by the
White House said. The statement added
that he was being monitored constantly
by electroencephalograph, an elec-
tronic device which monitors brain
waves.
Brady's vital signs were reported to
be normal at midafternoon.
SUCH SEIZURES are "not exactly
unexpected in cases of this type,"
Speakes quoted Dr. Daniel Ruge, the
White House physician, as saying.
This seizure may be only the first of a
series that could trouble Brady for the
rest of his life, Speakes said.
A neurosurgeon not connected with
the case said such seizures are common
with injury to the frontal lobe of the
brain, as suffered by Brady. If a series

of such seizures should follow, this
could mean post-trauma epilepsy, he
said.
THE SURGEON, who asked not to be
identified, said this form of epilepsy
can be controlled by drugs and has a
good remission rate. Richard Ellis, a
public relations representative at the
hospital, described the seizure as a
"sudden loss of consciousness im-
mediately followed by a generalized
convulsion."
Ellis said a brain scan did not show a
cause for the seizure but did show con-
tinued healing of Brady's brain
damage. He said the seizure's impact
on Brady could not yet be assessed.
SPEAKES SAID that such a seizure
does not necessarily leave any
noticeable effects.
He said the seizure would probably
require the hospital physicians to alter
Brady's anti-seizure medication. This
had been done in the past, and Brady
was being given a third type of anti-
seizure medicine when the attack oc-
curred.
Until the seizure, Brady's recovery
had been described as "steady and non-
eventful."
He had recently been fitted with a
brace and had taken his first steps in
physical therapy. Doctors have said
that Brady, when recovered, might be
able to walk with the aide of a cane.

Iotelblaze
Maintenance crews at the Park Place Hotel in Traverse City work to clean
up the mess left by an early morning fire yesterday. About 100 people were
safely evacuated from their rooms after a television in an occupied room
burst into flames.
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terday it 412,268, lost $13.4 million in 1980 and
tniest its $10.3 million in the first six months of
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ntracts. distributed to 1,901 employees, of whom
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unions.
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