A common term for hydrocephaly used by lay persons is
What is water on the brain?
100
a tell tale sign of hydrocephaly is what anatomical finding?
What is Macrocephaly or a large head?
100
Common treatment to drain excess CSF from the brain is
What is shunt placement?
100
Rarely, the mechanisms for producing cerebrospinal fluid create more than normal and more quickly than it can be absorbed.
What is overproduction
100
S/S of shunt failure can include
What is Fever, Swelling, Redness, Drainage
200
a condition in which fluid accumulates in the brain, typically in young children, enlarging the head and sometimes causing brain damage.
What is Hydrocephalus?
200
When assessing head circumference what percentile finding can be indicative of Macrocephaly
What is a head circumference at or above the 98 percentile?
200
A non invasive medical intervention for excess CSF is
What is diuretics
200
This is seen when a newborn is bleeding into the fluid-filled areas (ventricles) inside the brain. The condition occurs most often in babies that are born early (premature).
What is premature intraventricular hemorrhage?
200
The term for an enlarged head circumference
What is Macrocephaly?
300
A surgically inserted drainage system made of a long tube with a valve. The valve helps CSF flow at a normal rate and in the right direction.
What is shunt?
300
Ocular globes are deviated downward, the upper lids are retracted, and the white sclera may be visible above the iris.
What is Setting-sun sign?
300
A surgical procedure for treatment of hydrocephalus in which an opening is created in the floor of the third ventricle using an endoscope placed within the ventricular system through a burr hole.
What is Endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV)
300
These disease processes can block the exit of CSF from the ventricles to the cisterns or eliminate the passageway for CSF into the cisterns causing a build up of ICP.
What is Meningitis, tumors, traumatic head injury, or subarachnoid hemorrhage?
300
Another term for a Tense fontanelle is
What is bulging fontanelle
400
The most common problem is a partial ________ of the normal flow of cerebrospinal fluid, either from one ventricle to another or from the ventricles to other spaces around the brain.
What is obstruction?
400
Neurological assessment of tone in an infant diagnosed with hydrocephalus may reveal what finding?
What is hypertonia?
400
This treatment has a higher morbidity rate and lower sucess rate then shunting, but is used more commonly when a tumor is present
What is Opening of a stenosis aqueduct
400
Failure of this surgically implanted system can cause an increase in ICP r/t hydrocephalus.
What is shunt failure?
400
The two types of hydrocephalus are
What is Obstructive vs Nonobstructive
500
Optic disc swelling that is caused by increased intracranial pressure. The swelling is usually bilateral and can occur over a period of hours to weeks.
What is Papilledema?
500
Macewen sign: is a "cracked pot" sound is noted on percussion of the head. Where is this percussion performed?
What is on the temple?
500
This type of shunt is used only for communicating hydrocephalus, CSF fistula or pseudotumor cerebri
What is Lumboperitoneal shunt
500
Defects that cause aqueductal stenosis or developmental disorders (such as those associated with neural tube defects including spina bifida and encephalocele).
What is Inherited genetic abnormalities?
500
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