Show:
Seizures
Nursing Management
Head Games
Noggin Owwies
Not a spoonful of sugar...
100
The two major categories of seizures
What is generalized and partial
100
When a patient is on seizure medication, you monitor this.
What is medication (drug) levels, LOC, post-ictal period.
100
The lobe of the brain for reasoning, planning, speech, movement, emotions, and problem solving.
What is the frontal lobe?
100
Bleeding under the scalp on the OUTSIDE of the skull.
What is a concussion?
100
Prophylaxis meds for CVA.
What are aspirin, anti-coagulants, (possibly anti-hypertensives).
200
Name at least three triggers of seizures.
What are increased physical activity, increased stress, fatigue, alcohol withdrawal, specific foods such as caffeine/preservatives
200
Nursing measurement (scale) for increased intracranial pressure.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale?
200
The lobe of your brain with perception and recognition of auditory stimuli, balance, and memory.
What is the temporal lobe?
200
Type of bleeding between the dura and the skull (term and is it arterial or venous)?
What is an epidural hematoma?
200
Patients with this disease are given acetylcholinesterase, steroids, and immunosuppressants.
What is Myasthenia Gravis?
300

Name 1 medications used to treat status epilepticus.

What is Valium (diazepam), Ativan (lorazepam), Dilantin (phenytoin), and Cerebyx

300
Name at least two patient education points with Multiple Sclerosis.
What are avoiding fatigue/getting rest, depression, diet, and support groups?
300
The area important for survival and arousal (articulate speech, heartrate, breathing, blood pressure, digestion).
What is the brainstem?
300
Term for visual field loss with a CVA.
What is hemianopsia?
300
Name at least three medication categories for an acute CVA.
What are anti-hypertensives, anti-convulsants, steroids, diuretics, thrombolytics?
400
State of constant seizure or condition when seizures recur in rapid succession without return to consciousness between seizures
What is status epilepticus?
400
Important patient teaching for Myasthenia Gravis.
What is how to prepare, recognize, and react to respiratory failure?
400
Name at least three manifestations of increased intracranial pressure (ICP).
What are Babinski, Doll's eyes, Cheyne Stokes respirations, Decorticate posture, Decerebrate posture, opisthotonos.
400
Symptoms of resting tremor, rigidity, mask face, dysphagia, loss of postural reflexes.
What is Parkinson's Disease?
400
Name at least two medication categories for treatment of meningitis.
What are antibiotics, antivirals, corticosteroids?
500
The three phases of a seizure.
What are preictal (aural), ictal, and postictal?
500
Name two nursing measures for a patient with meningitis.
What are low stimuli environment and safety/seizure precautions?
500

How ICP is treated (two ways).

What are medications and/or surgery?

500
Disorder of 8th cranial nerve characterized by ear pain, paralysis, inability to frown or smile, altered chewing.
What is Bell's Palsy?
500
Medications for Multiple Sclerosis.
What are steroids and antispasmodics?