What is the Tensilon Challenge used to detect? - Answers-Myasthenia Gravis
What are the 2 maintenance drugs used for Myasthenia gravis? - Answers-Neostigmine
& Pyridostigmine
What are anticholinesterase drugs used for? - Answers-Myasthenia Gravis maintenance
What is another word for the tensilon challenge? - Answers-Edrophonium
What are the special tests used to detect myasthenia Gravis? - Answers-Edrophonium
challenge
Electromyography
Blood test for Ach Receptor Antibodies
Ice pack Challenge
, What does myasthenic crisis indicate? - Answers-More of the maintenance drugs needs
to be given.
If Vt, VC, & MIP improve from the tensilon challenge what is this referred to as? -
Answers-Myasthenic Crisis
If VT, VC, & MIP worsens with the tensilon challenge what is this called? - Answers-
Cholinergic crisis
What does the cholinergic crisis indicate? - Answers-Too much drug has been given.
How can you reverse the Cholinergic crisis? - Answers-Atropine
What does 3 layered sputum represent? - Answers-Bronchiectasis
What diagnostic test is ideal for Bronchiectasis? - Answers-CT
If the VT, MIP, VC fall below normal range in a neuromuscular diseased patient, what do
we immediately do? - Answers-Mechanic ventilation
What is normal VC - Answers-
What is myasthenia gravis? - Answers-Chronic disorder that interferes with the chemical
transmission of acetylcholine
Myasthenia Graves is a "______" paralysis. - Answers-Descending
What can provoke myasthenia gravis? - Answers-Emotional/ physical stress
Extreme temperature changes
Fevers
Pregnancy
What disease causes general weakness that improves with rest? - Answers-Myasthenia
Gravis
What are the CT findings of Bronchiectasis? - Answers-Appearance of end-on signet
ring opacity
Sleep apnea is diagnosed in patients who have.... - Answers-More than five episodes of
apnea per hour that last 10 seconds or longer (over 6 hours)
What's happens to blood pressure during a hemothorax? - Answers-Increases
What do smoke inhalation chest X-rays look like in later stages? - Answers-Pulmonary
edema & ARDS
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