Infectious Neuro Disorders
Muscle distortion, pain behind the ear, impaired taste, and unilateral facial paralysis.
What is Bell's Palsy?
Multiple sclerosis involves destruction of this covering.
What is the Myelin Sheath?
The brain’s ability to change the diameter of its blood vessels to maintain a constant cerebral blood flow during alterations in systemic blood pressure.
What is autoregulation?
This class of medications is administered during status epilepticus.
What are Benzodiazepines?
A group of syndromes characterized by unprovoked, recurring seizures.
What is Epilepsy?
Facial droop, weak grip, aphasia, and difficulty with gross motor lasting up to a max of 24 hours.
What are symptoms of a TIA?
Nuchal rigidity and severe headache are hallmark signs of this disorder.
What is Meningitis?
Generalized weakness affects all extremities and may involve the intercostal muscles, resulting in decreasing vital capacity and respiratory failure. The RN must be vigilant when caring for patient's with this disorder, and may need to prepare for mechanical ventilation during a crisis.
What is Generalized Myasthenia Gravis?
I like to stay at 30-45 degrees for patients with ICP.
What is the head of the bed?
These medications act by increasing striatal dopaminergic activity; reducing the excessive influence of excitatory cholinergic neurons on the extrapyramidal tract, thereby restoring a balance between dopaminergic and cholinergic activities; or acting on neurotransmitter pathways other than the dopaminergic pathway.
What are antiparkinsonian medications?
This is a medication frequently used to treat migraine headaches that is swallowed whole and can be repeated in 2-3 hours if pain is not relieved with initial dose.
What is Sumatriptan?
When this is present, oral nutrition and fluids are typically held until a proper evaluation takes place.
What is dysphagia?
After this procedure, the RN should implement the following interventions:
Provide oral fluids, monitor for nausea and vomiting, frequently assess mental state and LOC, closely monitor CMS.
What is a Lumbar Puncture?
This is a necessary component of patient teaching with Multiple Sclerosis.
What is relaxation?
I include stiff with bent arms, clenched fists, and plantar flexion.
What is decorticate posturing?
A class of medications that are used to pull water out of cells and into the bloodstream.
What are osmotic diuretics?
Visual disturbances, numbness and tingling of the lips, face, or hands; mild confusion; slight weakness of an extremity; drowsiness; and dizziness before the onset of a migraine.
What is an aura?
Your post-CVA patient has a systolic blood pressure of 192mmHg. The priority action is _____________________________________.
What is notify the RRT and provider immediately?
Hips and knees flex involuntarily as a result of flexion in the neck.
What is a positive Brudzinski's sign?
Uncontrolled sweating, drooling, paroxysmal flushing, orthostatic hypotension, gastric and urinary retention, constipation, and sexual dysfunction, dysphagia, bradykinesia, muscle rigidity, tremor, and postural instability are all clinical manifestations of this disorder.
What is Parkinson's Disease?
Clear fluid leaking from the nose or ears after head injury.
What is CSF?
An important teaching point for patients that are prescribed a beta blocker and / or calcium channel blocker for migraine headaches.
What is learning how to check a pulse?
What are materials needed for seizure precautions?
Class of medications given to prevent further harm from ischemic brain attack.
This disorder involves inflammation of the brain tissue and can cause headache, elevated temperature, nausea and vomiting, photophobia, nuchal rigidity.
What is encephalitis?
This is acute idiopathic polyneuritis. It is an autoimmune attack on the peripheral nerve myelin. The result is acute, rapid segmental demyelination of peripheral nerves and some cranial nerves, producing ascending weakness with dyskinesia, hyporeflexia, and paresthesias.
What is Guillain–Barré Syndrome?
I will be present if a test determines that a patient had CSF leaking from their ears or nares.
What is glucose?
Age ≥18 years; Clinical diagnosis of ischemic stroke; Systolic blood pressure ≤185 mm Hg; diastolic ≤110 mm Hg; No minor (nondisabling) stroke; Prothrombin time ≤15 seconds or international normalized ratio ≤1.7 (if taking an anticoagulant, the same guidance is used); Not received low-molecular weight heparin during the past 24 hours; Platelet count ≥100,000/mm3; No symptoms consistent with infective endocarditis; No prior intracranial hemorrhage; No subarachnoid hemorrhage; No stroke, serious head trauma, or intracranial surgery within 3 months; No gastrointestinal bleeding within 21 days, or gastrointestinal malignancy
What are the requirements for the administration of Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA)?
When this medication is used for seizures, the simultaneous use of warfarin is contraindicated.
What is Phenytoin?
Atrial fibrillation, heart valve disease, prosthetic heart valve, and endocarditis are potential risk factors or causes behind this leading to CVA.
What is an emboli?