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WHICH INFECTION IS MOST LIKELY TO PRODUCE HEADACHE,
FEVER, NUCHAL RIGIDITY, COMA AND DEATH? ------CORRECT
ANSWER---------------MENINGITIS
The "dance-like" movements of the head and extremities may be exhibited
in a patient with which hereditary degenerative disease?
a. Parkinson's Disease
b. Multiple Sclerosis
c. Pick's Disease
d. Huntingon's Chorea ------CORRECT ANSWER---------------
HUNTINGTON CHOREA
A MEGABYTE OF MEMORY IS APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO WHAT -----
-CORRECT ANSWER---------------ONE MILLION BYTES
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS IS CHARACTERIZED BY
RIGIDITY, TREMORS, AND FESTINATION? ------CORRECT ANSWER----
-----------PARKINSONS DISEASE
A PATIENT COMPLAINING OF RIGHT HEMIPLEGIA WILL HAVE WHAT?
------CORRECT ANSWER---------------DIFFICULTY MOVING THE RIGHT
HALF OF THE BODY
,A PATIENT WITH SENSORY APHASIA WILL HAVE DIFFICULTY..? ------
CORRECT ANSWER---------------COMPREHENDING THE MEANING OF
WORDS OR PHASES
WHAT TERM IS USED TO DESCRIBE BRAINSTEM INJURY IN A
PATIENT WHO IS COMPLETELY PARALYZED EXCEPT FOR VERTICAL
EYE MOVEMENTS? ------CORRECT ANSWER---------------LOCKED-IN
SYNDROME
WHAT TEST IS USEFUL IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF MULTIPLE
SCLEROSIS, PONTINE ANGLE TUMORS, COMA AND BRAIN DEATH? -
-----CORRECT ANSWER---------------BRAINSTEM AUDITORY EVOKED
POTENTIAL
QRS complex refers to:
a. ventricular excitation in the myocardium
b. spinal cord reflex
c. herniation of the first 3 cranial nerves
d. the tetrad of narcolepsy ------CORRECT ANSWER---------------A
VENTRICULAR EXCITATION IN THE MYOCARDIUM
WHEN PERFORMING AN EEG FOR EVALUATION OF CENTRAL
NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE THAT MAY HAVE INFECTIOUS
ETIOLOGY, THE TECHNOLOGIST SHOULD...? ------CORRECT
ANSWER---------------OBSERVE UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS
The ratio of chest compressions to breaths in one-person CPR is:
,a. 5:1
b. 5:2
c. 10:1
d. 30:2 ------CORRECT ANSWER---------------30:2
Normal alpha, in an adult, should NOT be seen:
a. in the central and temporal head regions
b. with the eyes closed
c. in the frontal head regions
d. in the occipital head regions ------CORRECT ANSWER---------------IN
THE FRONTAL HEAD REGIONS
Symmetry of sleep spindles, when present, is important in the evaluation
of:
a. the physiological maturation of an infant
b. seizures which occur during sleep
c. REM sleep
d. Spindle coma ------CORRECT ANSWER---------------THE
PHYSIOLOGICAL MATURATION OF AN INFANT
THE PRESENCE OF SLEEP SPINDLES AND V WAVES IN THE EEG
SIGNALS WHAT STAGE OF SLEEP? ------CORRECT ANSWER-------------
--STAGE II
Photic driving ------CORRECT ANSWER---------------MAY OR MAY NOT BE
PRESENT IN A NORMAL EEG RECORDING
Activation of an absence seizure is most consistently obtained during:
a. sleep
b. photic stimulation
, c. hyperventilation
d. eye opening and closing ------CORRECT ANSWER---------------
HYPERVENTILATION
Interictal discharges in patients with complex partial seizures are most
likely to be recorded in the EEG:
a. during the waking record
b. during photic stimulation
c. during stage-1 sleep
d. during REM sleep ------CORRECT ANSWER---------------DURING
STAGER 1 SLEEP
When recorded from over or near a burr hole, the EEG may show:
a. no asymmetries
b. lower amplitude activity over the affected area
c. higher amplitude activity over the affected area
d. slower frequencies over the affected area ------CORRECT ANSWER------
---------HIGHER AMPLITUDE ACTIVITY OVER THE AFFECTED AREA
THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF EPILEPSIES AND
EPILEPTIC SYNDROMES PLACES JUVENILE MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY
UNDER WHAT CATEGORY? ------CORRECT ANSWER---------------
GENERALIZED EPILEPSIES AND SYNDROMES
WHAT TYPE OF EEG ACTIVITY MOST OFTEN APPEARS IN
ASSOCIATION WITH RAPIDLY, GROWING TUMORS SUCH AS
GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME AND CEREBRAL METASTATIC
LESIONS? ------CORRECT ANSWER---------------POLYMORPHIC DELTA
ACTIVITY
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