Neuro
This level of consciousness is characterized by a patient responding only to painful stimuli.
What is a stuporous state?
This autoimmune disorder attacks peripheral nerve myelin, often after a viral infection, and causes ascending paralysis.
What is Guillain–Barré syndrome?
This virus is a retrovirus that targets CD4+ T lymphocytes and leads to immune system suppression.
What is Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)?
These four major factors contribute to obesity:
What is behavioral, environmental, physiologic, and genetics?
This condition is defined as bleeding from the nasal cavity, most commonly from the anterior septum.
What is epistaxis?
This is the priority nursing action during a seizure to maintain airway and prevent aspiration.
What is turning the patient to the side (recovery position)?
This autoimmune disease damages the myelin sheath in the central nervous system, leading to disrupted nerve signal transmission.
What is multiple sclerosis?
This is the maximum time frame after exposure in which antiretroviral postexposure prophylaxis should be started.
What is 72 hours?
This condition occurs when the thyroid gland produces too little hormone, leading to symptoms such as weight gain, cold intolerance, and bradycardia.
What is hypothyroidism?
This therapy is the treatment of choice for obstructive sleep apnea and works by keeping the airway open with continuous air pressure.
What is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)?
This is the most important modifiable risk factor for stroke.
What is hypertension?
This condition is characterized by sudden, severe, electric shock–like facial pain triggered by light touch or movement.
What is trigeminal neuralgia?
This is the most severe type of hypersensitivity reaction and can be life-threatening.
What is a Type I (anaphylactic) reaction?
This life-threatening complication of hyperthyroidism is characterized by fever, tachycardia, and delirium.
What is thyroid storm?
his nursing intervention helps improve airway clearance by encouraging deep breathing and lung expansion.
What is incentive spirometry?
This neurological condition is acute, sudden in onset, and often reversible.
What is delirium?
This condition causes sudden, unilateral facial paralysis including the forehead due to inflammation of the seventh cranial nerve.
What is Bell’s palsy?
This postoperative complication of gastric bypass is characterized by rapid gastric emptying causing nausea, diarrhea, and dizziness.
What is dumping syndrome?
This acute complication of diabetes is characterized by hyperglycemia, ketones, metabolic acidosis, and fruity breath.
What is diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)?
This abnormal chest shape, often seen in emphysema, results from air trapping and increased anterior-posterior diameter.
What is barrel chest?
This condition is a temporary neurologic deficit that resolves within 24 hours and serves as a warning sign of a future stroke.
What is a transient ischemic attack (TIA)?
The four cardinal symptoms of Parkinson’s disease:
What are tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, and postural instability?
This bariatric surgery removes about 75–80% of the stomach, reducing both food intake and hunger hormone production.
What is sleeve gastrectomy?
This diagnostic value defines diabetes when fasting blood glucose is equal to or greater than this level.
What is 126 mg/dL?
This class of medications is used daily to reduce airway inflammation and prevent asthma exacerbations.
What are corticosteroids?