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The priority nursing action during an active seizure
What is protect the airway and patient from injury?
This neurotransmitter is deficient in Parkinson’s disease.
What is dopamine?
This type of disease process causes MS.
What is an autoimmune demyelinating disorder?
This condition affects the neuromuscular junction.
What is an autoimmune disorder?
Cancer is characterized by this type of uncontrolled cellular behavior.
What is uncontrolled cell growth?
This imaging test uses radioactive glucose to detect metabolically active cancer cells.
What is a PET scan?
These cells are characteristic of Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
What are Reed-Sternberg cells?
This phase occurs immediately after a seizure and includes confusion and fatigue.
What is the postictal phase?
This type of tremor is most commonly seen at rest.
What is a resting tremor?
This vision problem is common in MS patients.
What is optic neuritis?
Muscle weakness improves with this.
What is rest?
This term describes the spread of cancer from one part of the body to another.
What is metastasis?
This diagnostic procedure involves removing tissue to confirm cancer
What is a biopsy?
This is a common early sign involving lymph nodes.
What is painless lymphadenopathy?
A seizure lasting longer than 5 minutes is considered this medical emergency.
What is status epilepticus?
Bonus: What is the priority treatment?
These hallmark symptoms include rigidity, bradykinesia, and this.
What is tremor?
This is the most common pattern of MS progression.
What is relapsing-remitting?
This diagnostic test temporarily improves muscle strength.
What is the Tensilon test? or Give edrophonium
This system is commonly affected by chemotherapy, leading to decreased blood cell production
What is the bone marrow?
This treatment delivers radiation from outside the body targeting a tumor.
What is external beam radiation therapy?
These symptoms include fever, night sweats, and weight loss.
What are B symptoms?
Bonus: What does this mean?
Daydreaming, lip smacking, and a blank stare are forms of this type
What is a focal seizure?
This medication converts to dopamine in the brain and is first-line treatment.
What is Levodopa-Carbidopa?
This environmental trigger can worsen symptoms.
What is heat?
Life-threatening complication involving respiratory muscles.
What is myasthenic crisis?
Swelling in the face, neck veins, arms, and respiratory distress in a cancer patient?
What is Superior Vena Cava Syndrome?
Bonus: Why?
This form of treatment delivers chemotherapy directly into the bloodstream through a central line or port.
What is intravenous (IV) chemotherapy?
Common treatments include this combination approach.
What is chemotherapy and radiation?
You walk into the room and see rhythmic jerking—priority positioning?
What is turn the patient on their side?
Priority teaching for medication effectiveness.
What is take medications on time consistently?
Priority treatment during an acute flare.
What are corticosteroids?
Priority nursing assessment in this suspected crisis related to MG.
What is airway and respiratory status?
Hypotension, Tachycardia, Weight gain, and renal failure are symptoms of this complication in cancer patients.
What is third spacing syndrome?
Bonus: What is low in the blood? And what is the mechanism?
This treatment delivers high-dose radiation internally via implanted radioactive sources.
What is brachytherapy?
These two infections have been linked to Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
What is human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)