Myelin Gets On My Nerves
This test during a physical exam when positive will confirm a diagnosis of BPPV.
What is the Dix-Hallpike maneuvre?
This neurological exam finding when positive is an indication of muscle weakness and an abnormal function of the corticospinal tract.
What is pronator drift?
A lack of immunization against H. influenzae type b, S. pneumoniae, and N. meningitidis in children puts them at risk for this condition.
What is bacterial meningitis?
Given the potentially life-threatening nature of underlying intracranial etiologies, this type of headache is a medical emergency requiring immediate evaluation.
What is a thunderclap headache?
Herpes simplex virus activation is the likely cause of this condition.
What is Bell's palsy?
Cranial nerve number 5.
What is the trigeminal nerve?
When positive this sign will cause hip and knee flexion when the neck is flexed.
What is Brudzinski's sign?
This lab test value is elevated in GCA
What is ESR or erythrocyte sedimentation rate?
This disease is characterised by acute attacks of transient rotatory vertigo lasting seconds to minutes, initiated by certain head positions, accompanied by torsional nystagmus.
What is BPPV or benign paroxysmal positional vertigo?
Key Parkinsonian features include these symptoms. Think TRAP!
What are tremor, rigidity, akinesia, postural instability?
The cause of this disease is best described as a destructive process of the nerve fiber protecting myelin.
This cardiac arrhythmia is a cause of stroke/CVA.
What is atrial fibrillation?
This headache type is commonly associated with an aura.
What is a migraine headache?
This chart is used to test visual acuity?
What is the Snellen chart?
The most prevalent type of primary headache in the general population.
What is tension type heachache?
This classic triad of of signs/symptoms occurs in acute bacterial meningitis.
What is fever, nuchal rigidity, and a change in mental status (sudden onset)?
This episodic attacks of tinnitus, hearing loss, aural fullness, and vertigo lasting minutes to hours.
What is Meniere's Disease?
This type of headache has also been termed analgesic rebound headache, drug-induced headache.
What is medication overuse headache?
This condition is known for sudden onset of neurological deficits of a vascular etiology without infarction and resolves within a few hours?
What is a TIA or transient ischemic attack?
This sign is elicited with the patient lying supine and the hip flexed 90', when extension of the knee from this position elicits resistance or pain in the lower back or posterior thigh.
What is Kernig's sign?
This acronym is used to help the public identify a stroke.
What is FAST (face, arms, speech, time)?
The oculomotor nerve.
What is cranial nerve number 3?
In older adults, this condition is the most common cause of acute symptomatic seizures.
What is an acute stroke?
This neurological test determines if balance issues are related to the function of the dorsal column by removing the visual and vestibular components that contribute to maintaining balance.
What is the Romberg test?
This is the most common of the systemic vasculitis.
What is giant cell arteritis or temporal arteritis?