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adult health final questions and answers| Graded A Glycosylated hemoglobin levels Correct Answer: This test is used to detect if the patient is adhering to the treatment. Thyroidectomy After surgery a nurse should have a Correct Answer: tracheostomy tray at the be side. • Guillain Barr...

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and answers| Graded A
Glycosylated hemoglobin levels Correct Answer: This test is used to detect if the
patient is adhering to the treatment.

Thyroidectomy After surgery a nurse should have a Correct Answer: tracheostomy
tray at the be side.

· Guillain Barre' Correct Answer: An autoimmune disease in which there is an
acute inflammation of the spinal and cranial nerves

· Guillain Barre' symptoms Correct Answer: prickling , pins and needles sensation
in fingers, toes, ankles or wrist
Weakness in legs that spreads to your upper body
Unsteady gait
Difficulty with facial movements, including speaking, chewing or swallowing
Double vision or inability to move eyes
Severe pain
Difficult with bladder control or bowel function
Signs and symptoms that are symmetrical and ascending that start in the lower
extremities
Airway obstruction is severe

Guillain Barre' diagnosis Correct Answer: - spinal tap
-electromyography
nerver conduction studies

Guillain Barre' nursing consideration Correct Answer: - observe increased work of
breathing

Guillain Barre' treatment Correct Answer: -Plasma exchange ( plasmapheresis)
- immunoglobulin therapy

, myasthenia gravis (MG) Correct Answer: autoimmune neuromuscular disorder
characterized by weakness of voluntary muscles

Myasthenia Gravis cause Correct Answer: immune system attack health tissue
antibodies attack the neuromuscular junction and causes damage

Myasthenia Gravis symptoms Correct Answer: Periodic weakness and muscle
fatigue that worsens throughout the day
Ptosis, Diplopia
Positive Ach receptor antibodies

Myasthenia Gravis treatment Correct Answer: -Corticosteroids - -
immunosuppressants
- pyroidostiigmine Mestinon

Parkinson's disease Correct Answer: a progressive disease that destroys brain cells
and is identified by muscular tremors, slowing of movement, and partial facial
paralysis

parkisons disease symptoms Correct Answer: -Bradykinesia
-akinesia
-tremors
-Shuffling gait

Parkinsons diagnosis Correct Answer: made through clinical findings

Parkinsosns drugs Correct Answer: - levodopa
carbidopa-levodopa

Stroke Correct Answer: A sudden loss of brain function resulting from a
disruption of the blood supply to a parth of the brain

ischemic stroke Correct Answer: this is the loss of function in the brain as aresult
of a disrupted blood supply

Hemorrhagic stroke Correct Answer: occurs when a blood vessel in the brain leaks
or ruptures; also known as a bleed

Stroke risk factors Correct Answer: Advanced age older than 55 years
Gender male

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