NREMT Paramedic

Answer: C - Febrile seizures are, by far, the most common type of seizures seen in the prehospital setting for infants. This seizure is brought on by a rapid increase in core temperature in infants. Infants do not have the thermoregulatory ability that adults do and cannot effectively rid themselves of heat fast enough to compensate for rapid rises in core temperature. Their bodies reflex action is to induce seizure to rapidly burn off core heat.