Sensory
Type of hearing loss that is from damage to the cochlear or vestibulocochlear nerve.
What is Sensorineural?
The three responses are assessed when calculating a patient's GCS
What are Eye opening, Best verbal response, Best motor response?
Slowness of movement associated with Parkinson's Disease
What is Bradykinesia?
This condition has symptoms of aphasia, weakness, or vision changes that resolve
What is a TIA?
This leukemia arises from a mutation in the myeloid stem cell with the clinical picture varying upon the stage of the disease.
What is CML?
Symptoms for this disorder include peripheral vision loss, seeing "halos around lights", and may have aching eye pain. There is no cure.
What is Glaucoma?
A collection of blood from hemorrhage in between the dura mater and the skull
What is Epidural hematoma?
Petechia or purport that do not blanch, fever, photophobia and headache
What is bacterial meningitis?
Name five modifiable factors that are associated with stroke risk
What are HTN, DM, obesity, CV disease, smoking, exercise, diet?
A type of hemolytic anemia causing the blockage of small blood vessels and can lead to an occlusive crisis resulting in tissue ischemia.
What is Sickle Cell anemia?
This diuretic and this NSAID can be responsible for tinnitus
What are furosemide (Lasix) and aspirin?
Name the hallmark symptoms associated with Cushing's triad
What are elevated BP, decrease pulse, decrease respirations?
Compression of which cranial nerve is associated with Tic Douloureux
What is cranial nerve V for Trigeminal Neuralgia
Two important interventions for feeding a patient a meal that has passed a swallow screen are
What are sit patient upright (raise head of bed) and tuck chin?
-will accept small bites
Underlying disorder with a decreased platelets and increased PT, APTT and may be precipitated by shock, trauma, or cancer
What is DIC?
Treatment for this condition includes a low sodium diet and medication to control of vertigo
What is Ménière's disease?
A patient with TBI that has an External Ventricular Drain (EVD) would include these three priority assessments?
What are cranial nerve assessment, vital signs, GCS (LOC), and ICP?
--will accept airway and fluid volume status
In Myasthenia Cholerergic crisis, it is a priority to monitor
What is respiratory failure?
Name three interventions when placing your patient on seizure precautions
What are padding the bed, making sure patient has as established IV, and working suction available?
Rare blood cancer with painless swollen lymph node, fever, sweats with single node origin
What is Hodgkin's lymphoma?
Prior to cataract eye surgery, it is important to ask the patient if they are taking drugs from this drug classification.
What are alphaantagonists?
Type of shock caused by loss of autonomic nervous system function below the level of the lesion resulting in decreasing blood pressure and decreased pulse
What is neurogenic shock?
Two treatments to reduce the circulating antibodies in GB Syndrome and
What are IVIG and plamapherisis?
Three early symptoms of hemorrhagic stroke
What are changes in LOC, vomiting, headache?
Will accept pupil changes, weakness, vision changes, dizziness, slurred speech, facial droop
In this type of anemia, there abnormally large nucleated blood cells and is associated with folic acid or B12 deficiency
What is megaloblastic anemia?