MONITORING) EXAM (2 LATEST VERSIONS)
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When doing cEEG in the ICU, the physician should be sent a communication when:
-when the patient seizes
-when there is an abrupt change in the background
Benzodiazepines such as Ativan (Lorazepam), at therapeutic levels can cause:
Frontal central beta
A brief period of transient paralysis following a seizure:
Todd's Paralysis
A longer time constant results in:
more slow frequencies recorded
A clinical sign of meningitis:
nuchal rigidity
Which of the following statements is correct in describing a potential hazard of a peer-to-peer
network?
During the diagnostic process_________________
uncertainty about the nature of the problem is reduced
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,Wernicke's Area
Parietal Lobe
When phenobarbital is used to manage increased intracranial pressure in traumatic brain injury
patients, cEEG is a key tool to help monitor:
Depth of sedation
Which of the following does not attenuate alpha rhythm?
eye closing
__________________is a white matter disease with long tract sign including spasticity,
hyperreflexia, and Babinski's Sign, optic atrophy, cortical blindness or deafness and seizures
occurring late in the course.
Leukoencephalopathies
Alzheimer's disease is a term for___________________
Dementia with amyloid plaques and neuronal tangles
A seizure characterized by a stare with no post-ictal confusion is
a/an_________________________
Absence Seizure
De-identified health information neither identifies nor provides a reasonable basis to identify an
individual.
True
Artifacts are not always undesirable. From the list pick the physiological artifacts that can
provide useful information:
-muscle activity: tremors and movements
-respiration, pulse, and EKG
-eye movements and nystagmus
Which of the following are identified limitations of a local area network (LAN)?
-There is a limited distance between the computers
-There is a lack of outside access to the network
Runs of notched theta in the 6 Hz range, appearing focally in the mid-temporals over one or
both hemispheres during drowsiness and light sleep.
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,This is a normal variant called RMTD, or Rhythmic Mid-temporal Theta Discharge.
Stroke is the leading cause of serious long term disability in the U.S
True
Most seizures are______________________
Idiopathic
Depth electrodes, grids, and strips provide:
Detailed information about the location within the brain of seizure onset or focus
The term deja vu refers to:
A false sense of familiarity with the current situation
The olfactory Aura preceding a major seizure is____________
The hallucination of a smell
When recording with indwelling electrodes, only runs of spikes and/ or sharp waves represent
ictal patterns.
False
When symptoms include high fever, stiff neck and terrible headache, what would the diagnosis
likely be?
Meningitis
A direct current (DC) power cable to a piece of equipment plug needs to be correct for the
voltage only.
False
An increase in size of a structure:
Hyperplasia
"Episodic low amplitude events" or periods of attenuation seen in patients who are acutely ill
from medical events or status epilepticus__________.
Are a recognizable pattern and may serve as a marker for a moderately poor prognosis
A simple visual measure or numeric index of relative hemispheric EEG asymmetries:
Asymmetry spectrogram or asymmetry index graph
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, Which of the following are components of the log-in/ log-out function?
-The function can be initiated by the user
Grade 5 coma would have a technical description of:
Isoelectric
The best LFF setting to use to see the slow frequency EEG patterns in newborns is:
.3 Hz
A normal variant pattern seen in the posterior temporal areas in drowsy children 6 to 10 years
of age.
14 and 6 Hz positive spikes
The patient often wipes his nose with the hand_______ to the seizure focus after a temporal
lobe complex partial seizure.
Ipsilateral
Why is observation of the patients in LTM so important?
The safety goal of observation is to prevent the morbidity and mortality related to untreated
status epilepticus, cardiac arrest, and or respiratory arrest and falls and to ensure the recording
and clinical examination of every exam
When recorded from over or near a burr hole, the EEG may show_______
Higher amplitude activity over the affected area
When performing an EEG for evaluation of a central nervous system disease that may have
infectious etiology, the technologist should______________
Observe the usual universal precautions
A focal seizure associated with centrotemporal spikes and characterized by paresthesias on one
side of the mouth, followed by ipsilateral twitching of the face, mouth, and pharynx, resulting in
speech arrest and drooling and possibly progressing to generalized tonic clonic seizure is
suggestive of:
Benign Rolandic Epilepsy
The patients at highest risk for unrecognized NCSE are those who have had:
GCSE (Generalized Convulsive Status Epilepticus) and are believed to have been treated
successfully
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