Neuro Of Infecious Disease

Front 1

Which sign is this:

Patient is supine with their hip flexed to 90 degrees and the ankle flexed as well. This stretches the nerve rootlets and causes pain if inflammation is present.

Back 1

Kernig's sign

Front 2

What sign is positive when the patient bends their knees when the neck is flexed while laying supine?

Back 2

Brudzinski sign

Front 3

What part of the brain does herpes virus typically attack?

Back 3

Temporal and frontal lobes

Front 4

In a young healthy person, what disease would you think they had rather then tuberculosis?

Back 4

Meningiococcus

Front 5

If you want to make sure it is ok to do a LP on a patient and you do not have access to a CT, what should you look for?

Back 5

Papilledema

Front 6

When measuring the CSF pressure with a manometer, if the reading is higher than ___ then they have high pressure.

Back 6

20

Front 7

What does cloudy CSF indicate?

Back 7

WBCs in the CSF, thus a bacterial infection is present.

Front 8

Name three different things that could cause bloody CSF.

Back 8

1. Traumatic tap
2. Herpes encephalitis
3. Subarchnoid bleed

Front 9

What is another name for clear yellow CSF?

Back 9

Xanhrochromia

Front 10

What are the causes of xanthrochromia?

Back 10

1. Elevated protein
2. Old bleed

Front 11

Find patient naked and throwing up in his/her feces..suspect? How does it present?

Back 11

Herpes b/c it might cause behavioral chnage

Can initially have PMNs in the CSF even though it is a virus