Apraxia - answer difficulty with motor planning to perform tasks or movements (your
brain knows but it cant carry out)
How often does osha check leakage of current - answer semiannually
What kind of seizure begins with the head and eyes turning to one side - answer adver-
sive seizure
What dysfunction is indicated by the presence of unilateral babinski signs - answer py-
ramidal tract dysfunction
What is the unilateral babinski signs - answer when a doctor strokes the foot to see the
retraction of involuntary muscles
If a patient has a stroke involving basilar artery, what clinical signs are expected to be seen -
answer diplopia
What is diplopia - answer double vision
Best describes a non critical infectious instrument - answer has contact with intact skin
Neuro cutaneous involvement syndrome - answer sturge webber syndrome
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,What are neuro cutaneous syndromes - answer disorders that affect the brain, spinal
cord, organs, skin, and bones. The diseases are lifelong conditions that can cause tumors to
grow in these areas. They can also cause other problems such as hearing loss, seizures, and
developmental problems.
A large lesion at the optic chiasm causes what - answer complete visual loss
Homonymous hemianopsia - answer loss of the left or right visual field in both eyes
Used to treat infantile spasms - answer acth (adrenocorticotropic hormone)
May be indicated by the presence of blood in the cerebrospinal fluid - answer subarach-
noid hemorrhage
Which of the following blood vessels is most frequently involved in strokes - answer mid-
dle cerebral artery
Used in treatment of gtc seizures and commonly in absence epilepsy treatment - answer
ethosuximide
Whcih of the following should be documented in the history - answer patient had dialysis
this morning
Which kind of tumor is least likely to cause epileptiform activity in eeg - answer pituitary
adenoma
In the eeg laboratory the major concern for transmission on infection is through - answer
blood
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, In evaluating abnormal eeg discharges it is most important to document - answer level of
consciousness and movements
Proximal vs distal - answer proximal is near to and distal is far
Creutzfeld-jacob disease eeg pattern - answer periodic sharp waves
Impedance can best be described as - answer resistance to alternating current
Most prominent clinical feature of dilantin toxicity - answer ataxia
Changes in personality is from what lobe of the brain - answer frontal lobe
Acth treats what - answer infantile spasms
Patient with right hemiparesis most likely has a lesion to what lobe - answer left frontal
lobe
Scotoma is - answer area of vision loss
Used to localize site of seizure onset by looking for area of hyperfusion - answer ictal
spect
Acronym used to describe distinctive eeg waves or complexes that occur between seizures
and are distinguished from background activity - answer ieds (interictal epileptiform dis-
charges)
Cabal nerve stimulators are used to treat - answer seizures and depression
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