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NURS 611 EXAM 1 PATHO EXAM AND TEST BANK
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What makes up the autonomic nervous system? - ANSWER Sympathetic and
parasympathetic nervous system

What is the parasympathetic nervous system responsible for? - ANSWER
Conserving energy and the body's resources

What is the sympathetic nervous system responsible for? - ANSWER
Catecholamine release - Epinephrine

Mobilizing energy stores and decreasing release of insulin

Redistributing blood low - Increasing to muscles and lungs (flight) and decreasing to
GI/Integumentary

What are the classifications of primary brain injury? - ANSWER Focal or diffuse

What are focal brain injuries? - ANSWER Specific, grossly observable lesions that
occur in a precise location

What are examples of focal brain injuries? - ANSWER Epidural hemorrhage and
subdural hemorrhage

What are examples of diffuse brain injuries? - ANSWER Hypoxia, meningitis,
encephalitis, and damage to blood vessels

What can happen with increased intracranial pressures? - ANSWER Collateral
dysfunction such as Diabetes Insipidus

What are characteristics of autonomic hyperreflexia? - ANSWER Paroxysmal
hypertension, pounding headache, blurred vision, sweating above level of lesion with
flushing of skin, nasal congestion, nausea, piloerection causes by pilomotor spasm,
and bradycardia.

What is the sequence of events leading to hyperreflexia induced bradycardia? -
ANSWER Stimulation of the carotid sinus nerve to the sinoatrial nose

The intact autonomic nervous system reflexively responds with arteriolar spasm that
increases blood pressure

Baroreceptors in the cerebral vessels, carotid sinus, and aorta sense the
hypertension and stimulation the parasympathetic nervous system

The heart rate decreases, but the visceral and peripheral vessels do not dilate
because efferent impulses cannot pass through the cord

, What are the onset of delirium and dementia? - ANSWER Delirium - acute and
common during hospitalization

Dementia - usually insidious and can be acute in situations such as trauma or stroke

What conditions are associated with delirium? - ANSWER UTI, thyroid disorders,
hypoxia, hypoglycemia, toxicity, fluid-electrolyte imbalance, renal insufficiency,
trauma, multiple medications

What conditions are associated with dementia? - ANSWER May have no other
conditions

What is the course of delirium? - ANSWER Fluctuates and remits with treatment

What is the course with dementia? - ANSWER chronic slow decline

What is the duration of delirium? - ANSWER Hours to weeks

What is the duration of dementia? - ANSWER Months to years

What sleep-wake cycle is noted with delirium? - ANSWER disrupted

What sleep-wake cycle is noted with dementia? - ANSWER Usually normal or
frgmented

What is the alertness and orientation with delirium? - ANSWER impaired

What is the alertness and orientation with dementia? - ANSWER Normal alertness
and intact early, but impaired later

What behavior is associated with delirium? - ANSWER Agitation,
withdrawn/depressed

What behavior is associated with dementia? - ANSWER normal

What speech and thoughts are associated with delirium? - ANSWER Incoherent
and rapid/slow as well as being disorganized and delusional

What speech and thoughts are associated with dementia? - ANSWER word-finding
problems and impoverished thoughts

What disease is the leading cause of dementia and severe cognitive dysfunction in
older adults? - ANSWER Alzheimer's Disease

What genetics have been linked to Alzheimer's Disease? - ANSWER Amyloid
precursor protein (APP) on Chromosome 21, presenilin (PSEN1) on chromosome
14, and PSEN 2 on chromosome 14

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