Types
Location
Meds
Nursing Care
Other stuff
100
Supportive tissue, glial cells, and astrocytes.
What is astrocytoma?
100
Hearing, smell and taste.
What is the temporal lobe.
100
Requires concurrent use of anti-ulcer medication.
What are steroids, phenotoin, and certain antibiotics?
100
The primary nursing diagnosis in patients with brain tumors.
What is Risk for ineffective cerebral tissue perfusion r/t cerebral edema?
100
Time that spasticity reaches its peak.
What is 2 years after injury?
200
Cells that form myelin sheath around nerves; commonly affects cranial nerve VIII.
What is an Acoustic neuroma (Schwannoma)?
200
Loss of bowel and bladder control.
What is S 2-4 injury?
200
Improves blood flow and reduces injury in SCI.
What is Methylprednisolone?
200
Necessary invasive reading to manage the patient with brain tumors.
What is ICP?
200
Tinnitus and vertigo, deafness.
What is Cerebellopontine tumor?
300
Lungs, breast, kidney, thyroid, prostate
What are metastatic tumors?
300
Visual reception area.
What is the occipital lobe?
300
Decreases muscle spasms and inhibits the transmission of impulses in SCI.
What are antispasmodics?
300
First action to treat autonomic dysreflexia.
What is elevate the head of the bed?
300
Opening into the cranium with a drill.
What is a burr hole?
400
Blood vessels of the brain.
What is a hemangioblastoma?
400
Injury leaving a good sitting balance. Full use of wheelchair.
What is L 1-2 injury?
400
Maintains blood pressure in SCI.
What are vasopressors?
400
Used to maintain alignment while turning patients.
What are special beds?
400
Alternate pathway to redirect Cerebral Spinal Fluid from one area to another using a tube or implanted device.
What is a shunt?
500
Meninges
What is a meningioma?
500
Injury requires ventilator and electric wheelchair with chin control or mouth stick.
What is C 1-3 injury?
500
Acidifies urine.
What is ascorbic acid?
500
Nursing action to treat blood pressure in autonomic dysreflexia.
What is administer beta blocker and vasodilator?
500
Decubiti prevention for the SCI patient.
What are special beds, turn q 2 hours, and keep pressure off bony prominences?
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