Nursing 302 Exam 4 Questions With Complete Solutions

C1-C7 injury correct answer: affects respirations, heart, breathing and everything below it T1-T2 injury correct answer: affects abdominal muscles, bowel, bladder, legs, and sometimes the arms S1-S4 injury correct answer: bladder control, uterus, and penia coccyx injury correct answer: unable to sense when bladder or bowel are full spinal chock manifestations correct answer: low bp, decreased reflexes, bradycardia, warm skin above injury causes of spinal shock correct answer: lots of communication above injury but not below it can be due to distended bowel, or bladder, or infection ways to to treat spinal shock correct answer: atropine for HAR, steroids, IV fluids to increase BP neurogenic dysreflexia (hyperreflexia) manifestations correct answer: seizure, high BP, bradycardia, bad headache, sweating, facial flushing causes of neurogenic dysreflexia correct answer: misscomunnication bc body is sensing something is wrong below injury but does not know what ways to treat hyperreflexia correct answer: raise HOB to 45-90 degrees, remove stimuli, call HCP, look for culprit incomplete injury correct answer: some sensory and stimulation is felt complete injury correct answer: no message, cord is severed does a spinal cord bruise every go away correct answer: no it never goes away, pt may get dysthesia