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Lab evaluation in patients with delirium: - Answer✔electrolytes
creatinine
glucose
calcium
CBC
urinalysis and urine culture
Vertigo: - Answer✔sensation of spinning or motion
Prescyncopal lightheadedness: - Answer✔sensation of impending faint
Disequilibrium: - Answer✔sensation of unsteadiness
Continuous dizzy symptoms: - Answer✔stroke
Episodic or brief dizziness: - Answer✔BPPV, labryinthitis
Hours or days of dizziness: - Answer✔menieres disease
Dix-Hallpike maneuver: - Answer✔-help differentiate benign vertigo vs. vertigo from a CNS
lesion
-expect vomiting
-BPPV treatment
-CNS lesion: longer duration nystagmus, continues with each repetition of hallpike, does not
decrease in intensity
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-benign vertigo: rotation nystagmus during head rotation, resolves quickly and cannot be
reproduced after 2-3 repetitions of hallpike
BPPV: - Answer✔-episodic w/ no vertigo
-N/V, worse with movement
-positive dix-hallpike maneuver
-using anti-emetics may prolong BPPV course
Labyrinthitis: - Answer✔-ABRUPT onset of dizziness
-sometimes occurs with viral URI
Postural hypotension: - Answer✔-20mm drop in SBP, 10mm drop in DBP without pulse change
-wait 2 min after standing from lying position
Diseased vestibular nerve: - Answer✔Menieres disease
-loss of low frequencies
-dizzy, N/V, diaphoresis, difficulty with balance, vertigo, tinnitus, fluctuating hearing loss,
feeling of pressure in the ear, diplopia
Basilar CVA: - Answer✔facial numbness, hemiparesis, diplopia, dysarthria, HA, N/V
Veterbrobasilar stroke syndromes: - Answer✔nausea, vertigo, facial numbness, hearing loss
Cerebellar infaction: - Answer✔severe vomiting, vertigo, ataxia
Tx of dizziness: - Answer✔-antihistamines- meclizine, benadryl, phenergan
-take medication for a week and then taper to PRN
-antiemetics- for n/v
-sedation precautions!
S/S of bells palsy: - Answer✔-50% max paralysis within in 48hrs
-pain behind or in ear
-smooth forhead
-widened palpebral fissure
-flattened nasolabial fold
-asymmetrical smile
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GNRS 5669 Exam 3 Questions And Answers|
Already Graded A+| Latest Update.
Lab evaluation in patients with delirium: - Answer✔electrolytes
creatinine
glucose
calcium
CBC
urinalysis and urine culture
Vertigo: - Answer✔sensation of spinning or motion
Prescyncopal lightheadedness: - Answer✔sensation of impending faint
Disequilibrium: - Answer✔sensation of unsteadiness
Continuous dizzy symptoms: - Answer✔stroke
Episodic or brief dizziness: - Answer✔BPPV, labryinthitis
Hours or days of dizziness: - Answer✔menieres disease
Dix-Hallpike maneuver: - Answer✔-help differentiate benign vertigo vs. vertigo from a CNS
lesion
-expect vomiting
-BPPV treatment
-CNS lesion: longer duration nystagmus, continues with each repetition of hallpike, does not
decrease in intensity
1
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-benign vertigo: rotation nystagmus during head rotation, resolves quickly and cannot be
reproduced after 2-3 repetitions of hallpike
BPPV: - Answer✔-episodic w/ no vertigo
-N/V, worse with movement
-positive dix-hallpike maneuver
-using anti-emetics may prolong BPPV course
Labyrinthitis: - Answer✔-ABRUPT onset of dizziness
-sometimes occurs with viral URI
Postural hypotension: - Answer✔-20mm drop in SBP, 10mm drop in DBP without pulse change
-wait 2 min after standing from lying position
Diseased vestibular nerve: - Answer✔Menieres disease
-loss of low frequencies
-dizzy, N/V, diaphoresis, difficulty with balance, vertigo, tinnitus, fluctuating hearing loss,
feeling of pressure in the ear, diplopia
Basilar CVA: - Answer✔facial numbness, hemiparesis, diplopia, dysarthria, HA, N/V
Veterbrobasilar stroke syndromes: - Answer✔nausea, vertigo, facial numbness, hearing loss
Cerebellar infaction: - Answer✔severe vomiting, vertigo, ataxia
Tx of dizziness: - Answer✔-antihistamines- meclizine, benadryl, phenergan
-take medication for a week and then taper to PRN
-antiemetics- for n/v
-sedation precautions!
S/S of bells palsy: - Answer✔-50% max paralysis within in 48hrs
-pain behind or in ear
-smooth forhead
-widened palpebral fissure
-flattened nasolabial fold
-asymmetrical smile
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