NR304 Exam 2 Questions with Correct Answers

NR304 Exam 2 Questions with Correct Answers what are a few possible factors for Grand Mal's? - Answer-food, sugar, alcohol what do we know about Alzheimer's? - Answer-it affects both short and long term memory and it is a decrease in vitamin D what is decerebrate posture? - Answer-fingers are flared, neck is extended, back is curved, legs are spread what is decorticate posture? - Answer-everything pulls toward their core as the brain deteriorates what is a dermatone? - Answer-skin area that is supplied from one spinal cord segment through a particular spinal nerve what is a positive Brudzinski sign? - Answer-resistance in neck along with involuntary bending of hips and knees = nuchal rigidity, meningitis what is a syncope? - Answer-fainting or losing consciousness no matter how short of a time what is vertigo? - Answer-dizziness, usually from inner ear what is ptosis? - Answer-drooping of an eye what is strabismus? - Answer-limited movement of eyes what is nystagmus - Answer-quivering of the eye what is atrophy? - Answer-muscles with weakened/wasted appearance what is flaccidity? - Answer-decreased resistance from weakness what is spasticity and rigidity? - Answer-increased resistance that occur with central weakness (ex: kicking leg uncontrollably in sleep) -cerebral palsy hands and tendons are rigid what is ataxia? - Answer-uncontrolled/unstead gait what does a Romberg test determine? - Answer-equilibrium, balance what is hypoalgesia? - Answer-decreased pain sensation what is hypoesthesia? - Answer-decreased touch sensation what is hyperalgesia? - Answer-increased pain sensation what is hyperesthesia? - Answer-increased touch sensation what is analgesia? - Answer-no pain sensation what is anesthesia? - Answer-no touch sensation what is hydrocephalus? - Answer-accumulation of CSF how can hydrocephalus occur? - Answer-in utero or from head trauma -shunts can drain the extra CSF into abdominal cavity what does the Stereogenesis test? - Answer-putting an item into patients hand and they should be able to identify it what is the Graphesthesia test? - Answer-writing a number on someones palm with their eyes closed and they should be able to tell you what it is what is two point discrimination? - Answer-persons ability to distinguish the separation of two simultaneous pin points of pain on the skin -start on hand where points are closer together and go up arm and they should get further apart