NUR 170 EXAM 2 GALEN | CONCEPTS OF MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE QUESTIONS 2026/2027

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Clinic Seizure symptoms - ANS ✔✔Jerking of all extremities, muscle contraction and relaxation

Tonic Seizure Symptoms - ANS ✔✔Muscle stiffness, rigidity

grandma seizure - ANS ✔✔Epileptic cry, extreme severe seizure

Status epilepticus number one cause is; - ANS ✔✔Abrupt stop in medication

Medication the breaks a seizure - ANS ✔✔Benzos

General medications for seizure management - ANS ✔✔Lorazepam, diazepam, phenytoin

Avoid what two things when taking phenytoin - ANS ✔✔Warfarin and grape fruit

Dilating is also known as - ANS ✔✔phenytoin

What IV should be kept accessible for seizure patient - ANS ✔✔Patent IV

Surgical management of seizures - ANS ✔✔Vagal nerve stimulator (VNS), deep brain stimulation, and
partial corpus callosotomy

Where is dopamine produced? - ANS ✔✔substantia nigra

What does dopamine do? - ANS ✔✔influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion

Dopamine inhibits what hormone? - ANS ✔✔Acetolycholine

Hormone that controls fine motor skills, controls involuntary movement - ANS ✔✔Dopamine

The sympathetic nervous system is reduced from what disease? - ANS ✔✔Parkinsons disease

Hypotension, drooling, nocturne, mood changes are symptoms from the reduction of what? - ANS
✔✔Sympathetic nervous system

Three main systems reduced by Parkinsons disease - ANS ✔✔Dopamine, sympathetic nervous system,
substantial nigra

What test is used for Parkinsons disease - ANS ✔✔Lumbar puncture

What is being assessed when a PD patient gets a lumbar puncture? - ANS ✔✔Decrease in dopamine
levels

Sinement is also called - ANS ✔✔Levadopa Carbidopa

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