Timby: Introductory Medical-Surgical
Nursing Chapter 37 (Correct Answers)
Aura - Answer - ✔✔sensation or odor/sound that occurs immediately before a tonic-
clonic seizure ; type of a warning signal
Automatisms - Answer - ✔✔Repetitive movements that may not be appropriate. Often
called psychomotor seizures. Patient may continue activity that was initiated before
seizure, but after does not remember activity performed during seizure. Other
automatisms: picking at clothing, fumbling with objects (real or imaginary), or simply
walking away.
Bradykinesia - Answer - ✔✔slowness in performing spontaneous movements
Brudzinski's Sign - Answer - ✔✔With the patient laying supine flex the head taking the
patients chin toward their chest. If involuntary flexion of the knees and hips are
witnessed then that is a + Brudzinskis sign and is indicative of meningeal irritation
(meningitis).
Cheyne-Stokes Respirations - Answer - ✔✔irregular pattern of breathing characterized
by alternating rapid or shallow respiration followed by slower respiration or apnea
Choreiform Movements - Answer - ✔✔uncontrollable writhing and twisting of body
Convulsion - Answer - ✔✔a seizure characterized by spasmodic contractions of the
muscles
Cushing's Triad - Answer - ✔✔3 Signs that are associated with an increase in ICP
1. A change in respirations, often irregular and deep, such as cheyne stokes 2. Systolic
BP that rises with a widening pulse pressure (the difference between the Systolic and
the Diastolic BP) 3. Pulse that increases initially but then decreases (Bradycardia: slow
heart rate)
Demyelinating Disease - Answer - ✔✔disorder that causes permanent degeneration
and destruction of myelin
Diplopia - Answer - ✔✔double vision
Epilepsy - Answer - ✔✔chronic recurrent pattern of seizures; seizure disorder
Fasciculations - Answer - ✔✔involuntary contractions or twitchings of muscle fibers.
Nursing Chapter 37 (Correct Answers)
Aura - Answer - ✔✔sensation or odor/sound that occurs immediately before a tonic-
clonic seizure ; type of a warning signal
Automatisms - Answer - ✔✔Repetitive movements that may not be appropriate. Often
called psychomotor seizures. Patient may continue activity that was initiated before
seizure, but after does not remember activity performed during seizure. Other
automatisms: picking at clothing, fumbling with objects (real or imaginary), or simply
walking away.
Bradykinesia - Answer - ✔✔slowness in performing spontaneous movements
Brudzinski's Sign - Answer - ✔✔With the patient laying supine flex the head taking the
patients chin toward their chest. If involuntary flexion of the knees and hips are
witnessed then that is a + Brudzinskis sign and is indicative of meningeal irritation
(meningitis).
Cheyne-Stokes Respirations - Answer - ✔✔irregular pattern of breathing characterized
by alternating rapid or shallow respiration followed by slower respiration or apnea
Choreiform Movements - Answer - ✔✔uncontrollable writhing and twisting of body
Convulsion - Answer - ✔✔a seizure characterized by spasmodic contractions of the
muscles
Cushing's Triad - Answer - ✔✔3 Signs that are associated with an increase in ICP
1. A change in respirations, often irregular and deep, such as cheyne stokes 2. Systolic
BP that rises with a widening pulse pressure (the difference between the Systolic and
the Diastolic BP) 3. Pulse that increases initially but then decreases (Bradycardia: slow
heart rate)
Demyelinating Disease - Answer - ✔✔disorder that causes permanent degeneration
and destruction of myelin
Diplopia - Answer - ✔✔double vision
Epilepsy - Answer - ✔✔chronic recurrent pattern of seizures; seizure disorder
Fasciculations - Answer - ✔✔involuntary contractions or twitchings of muscle fibers.
