True or False: All brain tumors are potentially lethal.
What is TRUE?
100
Numbness or weakness on one side of the body, sudden confusion, trouble speaking, trouble seeing in one or both eyes, and loss of balance or coordination
What is STROKE or CVA?
100
A chronic auto-immune neuromuscular disorder characterized by fatigue and severe weakness of the skeletal muscles.
What is Myasthenia Gravis?
100
A sudden exacerbation of motor weakness putting the client at risk of respiratory failure and aspiration.
What is Myasthenic crisis?
200
The stage of Reye Syndrome in which most children are diagnosed.
What is COMA?
200
The progressive dilation of the ventricular system, which becomes dilated as the production of CSF exceeds absorption.
What is HYDROCEPHALUS?
200
Weakness on the left or right half of the body.
What is HEMIPARESIS?
200
Is an acute inflammatory demyelinating disorder of the peripheral nervous system characterized by an acute onset of motor paralysis.
What is Guillain Barre Syndrome?
200
Drug most useful in controlling pain for Trigeminal neuralgia.
What is TEGRETOL?
300
Spina bifida is this type of disorder.
What is NEURAL TUBE DEFECT?
300
The state in which there is global ischemia of the brain while the body is maintained through artificial ventilation and the heart continues to function.
What is BRAIN DEATH?
300
This type of stroke causes a blood vessel in the brain to burst, spilling blood into spaces surrounding brain cells.
What is HEMMORHAGIC?
300
Also called tic douloureux, effects the 5th cranial nerve.
What is Trigeminal neuralgia?
300
Complication of a stroke; the inability to use or understand language.
What is APHASIA?
400
This is the most common chronic disorder of childhood.
What is CEREBRAL PALSY?
400
THIS becomes elevated with cerebral ischemia.
What is pCO2?
400
A low voltage transmitter connected by wires to electrodes where gentle tapping or vibrating sensations are experienced over the electrodes. It is believed to assist in pain management through the gate-control theory.
What is TENS?
400
Also called facial paralysis, is a disorder of the 7th cranial (facial) nerve, characterized by unilateral paralysis of the facial muscles.
What is Bell's Palsy?
400
Term used to describe lumbar back pain that radiates down the posterior leg to the ankle and is increased by sneezing or coughing.
What is SCIATICA?
500
Common characteristic of cerebral palsy.
What is ABNORMAL MUSCLE TONE OR LACK OF COORDINATION?
500
A positive, or normal, response to this reflex occurs when the head is rotated and the eyes automatically move in the direction opposite the rotation.
What is DOLL'S EYE REFLEX or OCCULOCEPHALIC REFLEX?
500
The inability to carry out certain motor patterns even when strength and coordination are adequate.
What is APRAXIA?
500
In Myasthenia gravis, _______________ destroy or block neuromuscular junction receptor sites, resulting in a decreased number of acetylcholine receptors.
What is ANTIBODIES?
500
The cause of this disorder is unknown, although inflammation of the nerve and a relationship to the herpes simplex virus have been suggested.