ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
You can submit billing for the use of spike and seizure software.
a. true
b. false - ANSWER a. true
When recording for ECI, inter-electrode impedances should be at least _____ ohms, but less than _____
ohms (note the question uses ohms and no K ohms)
a. 1,000 and 10,000
b. 100 and 10,000
c. 10 and 1000
d. 500 and 5,000 - ANSWER b. 100 and 10,000
What statement is true if your service uses a mobile approach?
a. Collecting EEG machine will probably be located in the patient room
b. Machine will mostly likely be located on a different floor
c. Machine will not be used at all
d. Machine has less risk of being touched - ANSWER a. Collecting EEG machine will probably be located
in the patient room
The importance of knowing the GA and the chronological age in any particular neonate:
a. helps to determine what EEG rhythms are normal for a particular age group
b. rules out abnormalities in any records with activity less than 2uV
c. determines whether the patient can have seizures
d. can predict the outcome of any high-risk neonate - ANSWER a. helps to determine what EEG rhythms
are normal for a particular age group
Status epilepticus _______.
a. does not require medical intervention
, b. is common to all epileptic patients
c. is a neuromuscular disorder
d. a clinical or sub-clinical seizure which continues for 30 mins or more without stopping - ANSWER d. a
clinical or sub-clinical seizure which continues for 30 mins or more without stopping
Mycosis is defined as:
a. excessive construction of the pupil of the eye
b. a disease caused by infection with a fungus such as a ringworm or thrush
c. inflammation of the spinal cord - ANSWER b. a disease caused by infection with a fungus such as a
ringworm or thrush
To aid in the diagnosis of narcolepsy, which of the following tests is performed?
a. MRI
b. multiple sleep latency
c. glucose tolerance
d. prolonged EEG - ANSWER b. multiple sleep latency
The central sulcus (fissure of Rolando) demarcates the _______.
a. frontal and temporal lobes
b. left and right hemispheres
c. frontal and parietal lobes
d. parietal and occipital lobes - ANSWER c. frontal and parietal lobes
Agnosia and apraxia are common symptoms seen in _______ disease.
a. Parkinson's
b. Alzheimer's
c. Huntington's - ANSWER b. Alzheimer's
What structure will most likely be affected first by an anoxic insult?