Evaluation
What visual condition that is commonly the result of a stroke, causes vision loss in the same side of both eyes?
What is Homonymous Hemianopsia?
What common condition is classified as a lung infection that causes air sacs in one or both lungs to fill with fluid or pus?
What is pneumonia?
Your patient is s/p craniectomy, you are teaching them lower body dressing, what technique of dressing should you advise them to avoid?
Any damage to what part of the brain (ie stroke, TBI, encephalitis, etc...) can cause visual field loss
What is the posterior region of the brain
T/F: Homonymous hemianopsia resolves overtime with eye exercises
False; unfortunately, the only evidence-based intervention for hemianopsia is compensatory visual scanning as homonymous hemianopsia is typically irreversible
What are you testing if you ask the patient to "Put your eyes on my nose. Now my finger. Now back to my nose"
What are saccades?
What is the name of a progressive brain disorder that affects thinking, movement, behavior, and mood and is characterized by a buildup of proteins in the brain that disrupt normal brain function?
What is Lewy Body Dementia
What assessment specifically utilized for patients post stroke is a performance-based index that is comprised of five domains including motor function, sensory function, balance, joint ROM, and joint pain?
What is the Fugl-Meyer
Your patient has an obstruction of the basilar artery. What areas of the brain will be impacted?
What are the brainstem, cerebellum, and parts of the occipital lobe
T/F: When working with patients with dementia, it is more effective for their motor learning to correct them the first time they complete the task as opposed to letting them problem solve the task themselves
True (it is more effective for their motor learning to correct them the first time they complete the task)
What is normal AROM of radial deviation?
What is 20 degrees?
What is the name of a chronic autoimmune disease that primarily causes muscle weakness in voluntary muscles and is the result of a breakdown in communication in the neuromuscular junction?
Myasthenia gravis
What subjective scale can be utilized to measure how hard your body works during physical activity?
What is rate of perceived exertion scale?
What part of the brain acts as a relay center for sensory information?
What is the thalamus?
PEEP, which stands for positive end-expiratory pressure, is a setting on a mechanical ventilator that does what?
What is maintains a positive pressure in the lungs at the end of exhalation to prevent alveoli collapse
You are testing a patient's muscle strength with the pt seated EOB. The patient demonstrates visible or palpable contraction in the muscle being tested however no movement of the limb is observed. What MMT grade do they have in this muscle?
What is grade 1?
What illness has airborne precautions, is caused by rubeola, and symptoms include cough, runny nose, inflamed eyes, sore throat, fever, and a red, blotchy skin rash?
What is measles?
Your patient has an ASIA C, T10 SCI. Given the ASIA scale, what are they likely to score on the MMT scale for motor functional below the neurologic level
What is an MMT score of 1-2+
("The impairment is incomplete. Motor function is preserved below the neurologic level, but more than half of the key muscles below the neurologic level have a muscle grade less than 3 (i.e., they are not strong enough to move against gravity)")
What type of condition can be caused by a lack of blood flow to the broca's area of the brain?
What is Expressive aphasia
T/F: Guillain-barre syndrome typically starts in the hands and UEs and progresses to the feet and LEs
False
(typically starts in LEs and feet and progresses to hand and UEs)
This is a simple cognitive test where you ask the pt to repeat 3 works, temporal orientation (year, month, day), and to recall the initial 3 words?
What is the Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMs)?
What is a condition where the upper chambers of the heart beat irregularly and rapidly?
What is atrial fibrillation?
How long after taking a dose of levadopa should you see a patient who is very rigid and has PD?
What is an hour after taking the dose (either short or long acting)
What nerve controls finger extension?
What is radial nerve?
What is a widely used clinical tool to measure spasticity that assesses the resistance to passive movement of a limb?
What is the modified ashworth scale?