2025 UPDATE : NUR 611 Exam 2 ACTUAL TEST
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What makes up the Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
autonomic nervous
system?
What is the Conserving energy and the body's resources
parasympathetic nervous
system responsible for?
Catecholamine release - Epinephrine
What is the sympathetic Mobilizing energy stores and decreasing release of
nervous system insulin
responsible for?
Redistributing blood low - Increasing to muscles and
lungs (flight) and decreasing to GI/Integumentary
What are the Focal or diffuse
classifications of primary
brain injury?
What are focal brain Specific, grossly observable lesions that occur in a
injuries? precise location
What are examples of Epidural hemorrhage and subdural hemorrhage
focal brain injuries?
What are examples of Hypoxia, meningitis, encephalitis, and damage to
diffuse brain injuries? blood vessels
, What can happen with Collateral dysfunction such as Diabetes Insipidus
increased intracranial
pressures?
Paroxysmal hypertension, pounding headache,
blurred vision, sweating above level of lesion with
What are characteristics of
flushing of skin, nasal congestion, nausea,
autonomic hyperreflexia?
piloerection causes by pilomotor spasm, and
bradycardia.
Stimulation of the carotid sinus nerve to the sinoatrial
nose
The intact autonomic nervous system reflexively
responds with arteriolar spasm that increases blood
What is the sequence of pressure
events leading to
hyperreflexia induced Baroreceptors in the cerebral vessels, carotid sinus,
bradycardia? and aorta sense the hypertension and stimulation the
parasympathetic nervous system
The heart rate decreases, but the visceral and
peripheral vessels do not dilate because efferent
impulses cannot pass through the cord
Delirium - acute and common during hospitalization
What are the onset of
delirium and dementia? Dementia - usually insidious and can be acute in
situations such as trauma or stroke
UTI, thyroid disorders, hypoxia, hypoglycemia,
What conditions are
toxicity, fluid-electrolyte imbalance, renal
associated with delirium?
insufficiency, trauma, multiple medications
What conditions are May have no other conditions
associated with dementia?
What is the course of Fluctuates and remits with treatment
delirium?