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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. |
Kernig's sign
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What sign is positive when the patient bends their knees when the neck is flexed while laying supine?
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Brudzinski sign
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What part of the brain does herpes virus typically attack?
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Temporal and frontal lobes
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In a young healthy person, what disease would you think they had rather then tuberculosis?
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Meningiococcus
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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?
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Papilledema
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When measuring the CSF pressure with a manometer, if the reading is higher than ___ then they have high pressure.
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20
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What does cloudy CSF indicate?
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WBCs in the CSF, thus a bacterial infection is present.
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Name three different things that could cause bloody CSF.
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1. Traumatic tap
2. Herpes encephalitis 3. Subarchnoid bleed |
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What is another name for clear yellow CSF?
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Xanhrochromia
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What are the causes of xanthrochromia?
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1. Elevated protein
2. Old bleed |
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Find patient naked and throwing up in his/her feces..suspect? How does it present?
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Herpes b/c it might cause behavioral chnage
Can initially have PMNs in the CSF even though it is a virus |