A chemical substance that excite, inhibit, or modify the response of another neuron.
What is a neurotransmitter?
100
A condition requiring the client's bed to be kept flat with the head midline to increase cerebral perfusion.
What is an emboli or thromboembolic stroke?
100
A condition seen in patients with communication deficits of aphasia or inability to communicate.
What is a left-sided CVA?
100
The cranial nerve responsible for sensation to the throat and taste (posterior one-third of tongue) and swallowing.
What is the glossopharyngeal nerve?
100
A condition characterized by headache and dizziness. Nervousness, irritability, emotional lability, fatigue, insomnia, loss of mentation, and other neurological deficits may also occur.
What is post-concussion syndrome?
200
A hypotensive situation resulting from loss of sympathetic control of vital functions from the brain.
What is neurogenic shock?
200
A condition in which patients are most comfortable lying on their back with knees flexed and a small pillow under the head or lying on the unaffected side, with the affected knee flexed.
What is a herniated intervertebral disk?
200
The failure to recognize or care for the affected side of the body.
What is unilateral neglect?
200
The cranial nerve responsible for hearing and equilibrium
What is the acoustic nerve?
200
A condition which occurs when bleeding occurs in the epidural space, subdural space, subarachnoid space, ventricles, or intracereberally.
What is intercranial hemorrhage?
300
The incordination of voluntary muscle action.
What is ataxia?
300
An anti-seizure medication which requires good oral hygiene because of hyperplasia of the gums, which become edamatous and enlarged.
What is Dilantin?
300
A condition characterized by bradycardia, widening pulse pressure along with increasing systolic pressure, and respiratory irregularities. Respiratory changes include periods of apnea, decreased respiratory rate and depth, and irregular respirations.
What is Cushing's Triad?
300
The cranial nerve responsible for extraocular eye movement
What is the abducens nerve?
300
A condition of cranial nerve V and is characterized by abrupt paroxysms of pain and facial muscle contractions.
What is trigeminal neuralgia?
400
A fanning of the toes and dorsiflexion of the big toe in response to the assessment of the plantar reflex.
What is a positive Babinski's reflex?
400
A condition requiring the head of the bed to be elevated to decrease cerebral perfusion.
What is a hemorrhagic stroke?
400
A visual disturbance typically consisting of brightly colored or blinking lights or a pattern moving across the field of vision.
What is an aura?
400
The cranial nerve responsible for upper eyelid elevation and extraocular eye movement.
What is the trochlear nerve?
400
A chronic, progressive hereditary disease characterized by a progressive involuntary choreiform movement and progressive dementia.
What is Huntington's Disease?
500
The inability to communicate verbally which is caused by the inability to form words or the inability to understand written or spoken words.
What is aphasia?
500
A condition requiring the immediate removal of noxious stimuli, placement of the patient in the seated position and ongoing assessment of blood pressure until within normal limits.
What is autonomic dysreflexia?
500
An increase in width between the systolic blood pressure and the diastolic blood pressure.
What is a widening pulse pressure?
500
The cranial nerve responsible for pupil constriction.
What is the oculomotor nerve?
500
A neurological movement disorder that also has prominent behavioral manifestations including motor tics and involuntary repetitive movements of the mouth, face, head or neck muscles.