Neuro
Sensation experienced before a seizure; may be a warning sign
Aura
An interruption of blood flow to the brain that results in the loss of brain function; also called a stroke.
Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)
A state of overwhelming obsession or physical need to continue the use of a substance.
Addiction
Pain felt in an area of the both other than the area where the cause of the pain is located.
Referred Pain
An emergency in which abnormal behavior threatens a person's own health and safety or the health and safety of another person (ex. a suicidal, homicidal or psychotic episode)
Psychiatric Emergency
The period following a seizure that lasts 5 to 30 minutes where the patient my have labored respirations and varying degrees of altered mental status.
Postictal State
Weakness on one side of the body.
Hemiparesis
A substance that is used to neutralize or counteract a poison.
Antidote
The protrusion of an organ or tissue through an abnormal body opening.
Hernia
A delayed stress reaction that develops after a horrifying ordeal that involved physical harm or the treat of physical harm.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
A seizure affecting a limited portion of the brain.
Partial Seizure
Type of stroke that occurs when blood flow to a particular part of the brain is cut off by a blockage inside a blood vessel.
Ischemic Stroke
An excessive quantity of a drug that can have toxic or lethal consequences.
Overdose
Inflammation of the membrane lining the abdominal cavity and covering the abdominal organs.
Peritonitis
A category of disorders in which there is no known physiologic reason for the abnormal functioning of an organ or organ system.
Functional Disorder
A change in mental status that is generally acute and reversible, characterized by disorientation, inability to focus, inability to think logically, memory loss, hallucinations, and delusions.
Delirium
The components of the stroke assessment BEFAST.
Balance, Eye, Facial Droop, Arm Drift, Speech, Time
Severe withdrawal syndrome seen in alcoholics who are deprived of ethyl alcohol.
Delirium Tremers
DOUBLE points for giving 4 GOOD signs/symptoms.
Inflammation of the gallbladder.
Cholecystitis
The point when a patient's reactions to events interfere with activities of daily living that becomes a psychiatric emergency when it causes a major life interruption such as attempted suicide.
Neurologic disorder characterized by muscles stiffening followed by rhythmically shaking.
Tonic-Clonic Seizure
Medical term for Slurred speech.
Dysarthria
Opiate or Opioid
DOUBLE points if you can tell me the difference between Opiate and Opioid.
Paralysis of the bowel that stops contractions that move material through the intestine.
Ileus
Medical term for restriction of the chest wall movements and/or airway obstruction; can lead to sudden death.
Positional Asphyxia