A 24-year-old male has been admitted to an EMU unit (epilepsy monitoring unit) due to a history of seizure-like episodes. As the nurse you understand that monitoring a patient's seizure episodes is important to determine whether or not the episode is a seizure or if determined to be a seizure activity, to record brain activity in a patient in order to guide treatment. According to the disease classifications and definitions table, this is an example of what two types of disease classifications?

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The disease classifications and definitions table classifies diseases into two types: psychosomatic versus chronic and acute versus chronic. The patient in this case is being monitored for seizure-like episodes, which is a chronic condition. Therefore, the correct answer is A.

A 24-Year-Old Male Has Been Admitted to an EMU Unit