N316B Exam 2 2025/2026 Exam
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two types of stroke
- common intervention - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Ischemic - caused by embolus or
thrombus (clot) in cerebral artery which blocks blood flow and oxygen,
resulting in cell death
Hemorrhagic - rupture and hemorrhage of cerebral artery (ruptured
aneurysm or trauma), resulting in compression of brain cells which
decreases blood flow
Common intervention, must be administered within first 4 hours:
Recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) or tPA
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,What kind of stroke would be indicated when a CT scan identifies bleeding
in a specific area of the brain? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Intracranial hemorrhage
(hemorrhagic stroke)
If a patient experiencing an ischemic stroke does not respond to
thrombolysis, what is the next option? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Thrombectomy
Huntington's disease - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A human genetic disease caused by
a dominant allele; characterized by uncontrollable body movements and
degeneration of the nervous system; usually fatal 10 to 20 years after the
onset of symptoms.
- athetosis
athetosis
- what is it
- what is it associated with - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔bizarre, slow, twisting, writhing
movement, resembling a snake or worm
- huntingtons disease
Parkinson's disease
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, - common treatment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔PD is a disorder where there is
degeneration of basal ganglia. There is not enough dopamine and tremors
are caused by the acetylcholine without dopamine to counteract them. Can
manifest as stiff/mask-like facial expression, tremors, muscle rigidity,
bradykinesia, loss of postural reflexes, loss of arm swing
- anticholinergic treatment
What neurotransmitter is deficient with this disorder (Parkinson's disease)?
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔dopamine
What are the side effects of anticholinergic treatment - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Confusion, agitation, delirium, n/v There are some other uncomfortable
side effects of the agent.[1] [2] - Dry mouth, blurry vision, photophobia,
constipation, urinary retention
myasthenia gravis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a chronic autoimmune disease that
affects the neuromuscular junction and produces serious weakness of
voluntary muscles
- loss of Ach
myasthenia gravis diagnostic tests - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Endrophonium
(Tensilon) Testing - acetylcholinesterase inhibitor
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two types of stroke
- common intervention - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Ischemic - caused by embolus or
thrombus (clot) in cerebral artery which blocks blood flow and oxygen,
resulting in cell death
Hemorrhagic - rupture and hemorrhage of cerebral artery (ruptured
aneurysm or trauma), resulting in compression of brain cells which
decreases blood flow
Common intervention, must be administered within first 4 hours:
Recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) or tPA
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,What kind of stroke would be indicated when a CT scan identifies bleeding
in a specific area of the brain? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Intracranial hemorrhage
(hemorrhagic stroke)
If a patient experiencing an ischemic stroke does not respond to
thrombolysis, what is the next option? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Thrombectomy
Huntington's disease - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A human genetic disease caused by
a dominant allele; characterized by uncontrollable body movements and
degeneration of the nervous system; usually fatal 10 to 20 years after the
onset of symptoms.
- athetosis
athetosis
- what is it
- what is it associated with - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔bizarre, slow, twisting, writhing
movement, resembling a snake or worm
- huntingtons disease
Parkinson's disease
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, - common treatment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔PD is a disorder where there is
degeneration of basal ganglia. There is not enough dopamine and tremors
are caused by the acetylcholine without dopamine to counteract them. Can
manifest as stiff/mask-like facial expression, tremors, muscle rigidity,
bradykinesia, loss of postural reflexes, loss of arm swing
- anticholinergic treatment
What neurotransmitter is deficient with this disorder (Parkinson's disease)?
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔dopamine
What are the side effects of anticholinergic treatment - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Confusion, agitation, delirium, n/v There are some other uncomfortable
side effects of the agent.[1] [2] - Dry mouth, blurry vision, photophobia,
constipation, urinary retention
myasthenia gravis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a chronic autoimmune disease that
affects the neuromuscular junction and produces serious weakness of
voluntary muscles
- loss of Ach
myasthenia gravis diagnostic tests - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Endrophonium
(Tensilon) Testing - acetylcholinesterase inhibitor
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