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| In which layer of the skull is the CSF located? |
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| A Subarachnoid hemorrhage |
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| If you are doing a lumbar tap and all of 4 of the tubes of CSF you pull out are full of blood what can be diagnosed? |
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| On which tubes is a cell count done for a CSF lab? |
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A person with a CSF result of:
Cell count - mostly lymph
Protein - increased
Glucose - Normal
Op Pr. elevation - slight
would have what type of infection? |
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A person with CSF labs:
Cell count - mainly PMN
Protein - increased
Glucose - <2/3 BS
Op Pr. elevation - Marked
would have what type of infection? |
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| If a pts ICP was over 20, what drug would you give to diurese the pt? |
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| What is the cause of increased ICP when the body is tricked to thinking it has a tumor? |
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| A pt presents with fever, nausea/vomitting, headache and a petechial rash, what would you suspect? |
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| What is a sign of an epidural hematoma which would cause you to rethink your idea of a lumbar puncture? |
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| What is the first thing you would do for a pt with an epidural hematoma? |
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| What is something you could do to vasoconstrict the cerebral vessels to lower the ICP? |
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| A pt comes in to the ER from a MVA and is comatose. He is not able to speak to you, he grimaces when you perform a sternal rub, and his eyes do not open to voice or to pain. What is his GCS? |
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| What is the position called when a pt presents to you with their legs extended and arms twisted on their chest? |
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| At what GCS level would you be consideringn intubating your pt? |
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| What is the imaging study you would order for a head injury pt? |
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| A pt presents with a depressed skull fracture with CSF oozing out of the wound. What worries you about that? |
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| A pt in an MVA presents to the ER with blood coming out of his ears and nose with a ring of clear fluid around it what kind of head injury would you suspect? |
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| Racoon's eyes and Battle's signs are two distinct signs of what kind of fracture? |
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| What type of procedure can you NOT do to a pt with a basilar skull fracture? |
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| When the brain is injured on the opposite side of impact? |
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| Which cranial nerve would you worry about with a pt who fell backwards? |
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| Non-penetrating traumatic injury to the brain with a brief period of amnesia? |
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| A pt presents to the ER after a bicycle accident with S&S of verbal delay, disorientation, is easily destractable and cannot remember the accident, what type of injury would you suspect? |
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| A football player receives a blow to the head and then returns to play soon after, he then receives a second blow to the head. What type of injury is this? |
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| Several contusions to the brain would show up as what color on a CT? |
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| What type of hematoma is the least worrysome? |
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| What type of hematoma is the most worrysome? |
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| What would you be worried about with a patient with a subarachnoid hematoma? |
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| A pt presents to the ER with a Loss of consciousness with lucid intervals after falling off a ladder. What type of hematoma would you worry about? |
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| Which artery is associated with epidural hematomas? |
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| What type of hematoma will a pt present with "the worse headache i've ever had"? |
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| What type of hematoma is caused by a ruptured cerebral aneurysm? |
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| Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus |
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| A pt presents to the ER b/c of confusion. In his lucid states, he says that he has been incontinent 3 times in the past 2 days and he has felt unsteady on his feet. What condition would you suspect? |
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| What type of imaging scan would you use to diagnose lack of perfusion to the brain? |
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| What is it called when the temporal lobe herniates out of the tentorial hiatus? |
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| What type of injury would you suspect when one pupil is dilated and one is fixed? |
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| What injury will present with flaccid paralysis, respiratory arrest, and bradycardia? |
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| What type of injury will present with opposite side deficits in pain and temp, same side deficits in proprioception and spasticity? |
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| What type of spinal cord injury would present loss of both sides of pain and temp, loss of movement and preservation of vibration and position? |
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| What type of spinal cord injury presents with preservation of motor, loss of vibratory and position bilaterally, and preservation of pain and temperature on both sides? |
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| Conus Medullaris Syndrome |
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| What spinal cord injury causes perianal anesthesia, loss of bowel and bladder function, hyperreactive DTRs, and positive Babinski? |
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| What type of spinal cord injury results in loss of bowel and bladder function, loss of DTRs, negative Babinski and saddle anesthesia? |
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| What type of spinal cord injury results in loss of senstation, motor, and urinary and fecal retention? |
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| What type of spinal cord issue would present with midline dorsal pain, fever and progressive limb weakness? |
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