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Encourage sun protection measures, regular exercise, healthy diet, avoid smoking, proper hygiene and stress getting adequate rest
What is Systemic Lupus Erythematosus?
This position is encouraged for patients post lumbar puncture.
What is supine?
Screening test for auto-immune disease.
What is ANA?
Defects of articulation due to neurologic causes
What is dysarthria?
the largest lobe. The major functions of this lobe are concentration, abstract thought, information storage or memory, and motor function. It contains Broca area, which is in the left hemisphere and is critical for motor control of speech. This lobe is also responsible in large part for a person’s affect, judgment, personality, and inhibitions
What is the frontal lobe?
Avoid stress, heat, fatigue, prolonged activity. Encourage use of an eye patch over a ptotic eye.
What is Myasthenia Gravis?
If possible, place the patient on one side with head flexed forward, which allows the tongue to fall forward and facilitates drainage of saliva and mucus. If suction is available, use it if necessary to clear secretions. Protect the head with a pad to prevent injury (from striking a hard surface). Loosen constrictive clothing and remove eyeglasses.
What is a seizure?
What is CRP?
Inability to understand what someone else is saying; often associated with damage to the temporal lobe area
What is receptive aphasia?
This lobe is located inferior to the frontal and parietal lobes, it contains the auditory receptive areas and plays a role in memory of sound and understanding of language and music.
What is the temporal lobe?
The disease is genetically transmitted. Monitor for depression and suicidal ideations, encourage exercise and a high calorie diet.
What is Huntington's?
The three hallmark signs of Cushings reflex.
What is bradycardia, increasing systolic blood pressure and widening pulse pressure?
This diagnostic test is a record of the electrical activity generated in the brain.. It is obtained through electrodes applied on the scalp or through microelectrodes placed within the brain tissue. It provides an assessment of cerebral electrical activity. It is useful for diagnosing and evaluating seizure disorders, coma, or organic brain syndrome.
What is an EEG?
Difficulty swallowing
What is dysphagia?
This part of the brain integrates sensory information to provide smooth coordinated movement. It controls fine movement, balance, and position (postural) sense or proprioception (awareness of position of extremities without looking at them).
What is the cerebellum?
This disease peaks in about two weeks from onset. It may take up to two years for full recovery. Medications such as plasmapheresis and IV immunoglobulin should be given within two weeks of onset of symptoms to help decrease signs and symptoms.
What is Guillain-Barre?
This can be an early sign of meningitis and any attempts at flexion of the head are difficult because of spasms in the muscles of the neck.
What is nuchal rigidity (a stiff and painful neck)
This test is obtained by inserting needle electrodes into the skeletal muscles to measure changes in the electrical potential of the muscles. The electrical potentials are shown on an oscilloscope and amplified so that both the sound and appearance of the waves can be analyzed and compared simultaneously. This is useful in determining the presence of neuromuscular disorders and myopathies. It helps distinguish weakness due to neuropathy (functional or pathologic changes in the peripheral nervous system) from weakness resulting from other causes
What is an EMG?
Weakness of one side of the body, or part of it, due to an injury in the motor area of the brain
What is hemiparesis?
This lobe is located posterior to the parietal lobe, this lobe is responsible for visual interpretation and memory
What is the occipital lobe?
Patients may wake up with morning stiffness so you may want to plan activities later in the day. Proper diet, rest, pain management are key to this auto-immune disease.
What is Rheumatoid Arthritis?
In this disease process, Anticholinesterase medications must be given on time. Any delay in administration of medications may exacerbate muscle weakness and make it impossible for the patient to take medications orally
What is Myasthenia Gravis?
This exam is carried out by inserting a needle into the lumbar subarachnoid space to withdraw CSF The test may be performed to obtain CSF for examination, to measure and reduce CSF pressure, to determine the presence or absence of blood in the CSF, and to administer medications intrathecally (into the spinal canal)
What is a lumbar puncture?
Blindness of half of the field of vision in one or both eyes
What is hemianopsia?
This lobe analyzes sensory information and relays the interpretation of this information to other cortical areas and is essential to a person’s awareness of body position in space, size and shape discrimination, and right–left orientation
What is the parietal lobe?