Neurologic I
Test to diagnose suspected seizure
Electroencephalography-EEG
Exacerbation or Acute worsening of muscle weakness
Myasthenia crisis
Acute, temporary, facial paresis from damage or trauma to facial nerve
Bell's palsy
Therapy that has detrimental effects on the musculoskeletal system
Corticosteroid therapy
Moving or repositioning a patient with a laminectomy
Log roll, or move as a unit
Treatment of osteomyelitis
Long-term IV antibiotic
Joint pain, early morning stiffness and resolves in 30 minutes, affects one side of the body, nodes on fingers, varus/valgus deformity
Osteoarthritis
Disseminated demyelination of nerve fibers
Slow, gradual, vision changes, spasticity
Multiple Sclerosis
Modify disease progression and prevent relapses of multiple sclerosis
Disease modifying drugs/DMD (B-interferon)
Hypotension (<90 mmHg), bradycardia, temperature dysregulation, may persist as long as 5 weeks after spinal cord injury (SCI)
Neurogenic Shock
Sample collection or removal of excess synovial fluid from the joint space or capsule
Arthrocentesis
Sudden severe pain at the hip, lump in the buttocks, limb shortening, external rotation
Hip dislocation
Genetic
Progressive systematic wasting of skeletal muscles without evidence of neurologic involvement
Muscular dystrophy
Nonspecific manifestations, often affects small joints, symmetrical, stiff after inactivity, pain increases with movement
Rheumatoid arthritis
Continuous seizure, no return consciousness between seizure
Status epilepticus (SE)
Tremors, rigidity, bradykinesia
Parkinson's Disease
Initial assessment of spinal cord injury (SCI)
ABC (airway, breathing, circulation)
Most common diagnostic study used to assess the skeletal system
Bone x-ray
Immediate pain, edema/swelling, deformity, inability to bear weight/loss of function, bruising, spasm
Fracture
Recommended diet of osteoporosis
High calcium
Laboratory test for gout
Uric acid
Priority nursing action during tonic-clonic seizure episode
Ensure patent airway
Primary treatment for Parkinson's disease
Levodopa-carbidopa (Sinemet)
Acute, ascending, rapidly progressive, symmetric weakness of the limbs. Occurs a few days after viral or bacterial infection
Guillain-barre syndrome (GBS)
Partial or incomplete displacement of the joint surface
Subluxation
Pain, pressure, paresthesia, pallor, paralysis, pulselessness
Compartment syndrome
Vitamin D deficiency which results in softening of bones
Osteomalacia
Lyme disease if left untreated
Chronic arthritic pain and swelling of joints
Medication for status epilepticus
Benzodiazepines
Genetic, chorea, progress to dementia, depression
Huntington's disease
Muscle rigidity and spasms is the hallmark feature.
Trismus, risus sardonicus
Tetanus
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Positive Tinel's sign and Phalen sign
Patient complains of pain in a limb that does not exist or post amputation
Phantom limb syndrome
Prevents acute/chronic lower back pain
Proper/correct body mechanics
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)