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Blueprints Flashcards

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CSF produced by

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choroid plexus

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CSF absorbed by

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arachnoid granulations in dural venous sinuses

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LP contraindications

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space occupying lesion causing mass effect with increased ICP
local infection/inflammation
coagulopathy

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ASIS is at the level of the

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L3-4

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normal CSF glucose, protein, WBC, OP

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2/3 blood glucose, 40-50 protein,

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CSF with oligoclonal banding

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MS

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CSF with xanthochromia

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SAH, hemorrhagic encephalitis

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CSF positive EBV PCR

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CNS lymphoma in immunosuppressed

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CSF in 14-3-3 protein

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CJD

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complication of LP

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low pressure headache

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11
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DWI useful for identifying

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stroke

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visual evoked potentials (VEPs)

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diagnose optic neuritis and MS

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SSEPs somatosensory evoked potentials

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peripheral nerve and spinal cord problems, anoxic brain damage

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BAEPs brainstem auditory evoked potentials

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brainstem dysfunction, esp vestibular schwannomas

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Rx for commonly reversible coma

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naloxone, thiamine, dextrose (thiamine b/f dextrose to prevent wernicke’s encephalopathy)

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altered consciousness can be due to two general categories

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brainstem dysfunction or both cerebral hemispheres dysfunction

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ways to decrease ICP

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raise head of bed, hyperventilate, mannitol/other osmotic diuretic

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locked in syndrome

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lesion at base of pons, awareness and cognition intact but nearly complete paralysis

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persistent vegetative state

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preserved sleep wake and autonomic functions, no awareness or cognition

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brain death

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no brain function, irreversible

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chronic alcoholic, acutely confused (encephalopathic), eye movement abnormalities, ataxia, autonomic signs

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wernicke’s encephalopathy

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long term memory disorder w/ anterograde amnesia, confabulations, after wernicke’s encephalopathy resolved

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korsakoff’s syndrome

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losing some color vision (esp red)

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MS

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dilation lag in small pupil (mitosis) and anisocoria greater in darkness

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sympathetic defect (e.g. Horner’s)

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ptosis, dilated pupil (mydriasis), opthalmoplegia

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3rd nerve palsy

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bilateral small pupils, irregular, impaired light reaction and intact LND

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Argyll robertson pupil, syphilis

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dilated pupil, segmental contraction, light-near dissociation

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adie’s pupil, PS fibers affected

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causes of increased ICP

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space-occupying lesion (tumor, AVM, aneurysm, edema) or idiopathic intracranial hypertension

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symptoms of ICP

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morning headache, ataxia, transient visual obscuration, enlarged blind spot, bilateral disc hyperemia

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rx idiopathic intracranial hypertension

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acetazolamide, nerve decompression, shunt

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hyaline bodies on funds, enlarged blind spot

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drusen (calcified hyaline bodies) or pseudopapilledema; familial

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painful visual loss, worse with exercise or heat (Uhthoff’s), RAPD, retro-orbital pain, loss of color discrimination, central scotoma

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optic neuritis, usually due to demyelination (MS, SLE, sarcoid, adrenoleukodystrophy, tumor), or viral/meningitis, behcet, whipple, crohn

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optic neuritis rx

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IV methylprednisolone

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painless sudden visual loss, usually over 50, associated with HTN or hypotension, DM. often unilateral segmental disc edema

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anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, vascular causes or inflammatory (temporal arteritis)

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ipsilateral optic atrophy and contralateral papilledema

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frontal lobe tumor, Foster Kennedy Syndrome

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eye is down and out

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3rd nerve

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proximal symmetric weakness, can affect neck muscles, elevated CK

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primary muscle disorder

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fluctuation in degree of weakness, proximal muscles > distal, some extra ocular and bulbar muscles

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NMJ disorders

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muscle nerve root? shoulder abduction

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deltoid axillary C5

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muscle nerve root? elbow flexion

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biceps musulocutaneous C5/6

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muscle nerve root? elbow extension

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triceps radial C7

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muscle nerve root? wrist extension

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wrist extensors radial C7

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muscle nerve root? finger flexion

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finger flexors median and ulnar C8/T1

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muscle nerve root? finger extension

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finger extensors radial C7

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muscle nerve root? finger abduction

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interossei ulnar C8/T1

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muscle nerve root? hip flexion

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iliopsoas nerve to iliopsoas L1/2/3

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muscle nerve root? hip abduction

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gluteus medius and minimus superior gluteal L5

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muscle nerve root? hip adduction

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hip adductors obturatory L3

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muscle nerve root? hip extension

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gluteus maximus sciatic S1

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muscle nerve root? knee flexion

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hamstrings, sciatic, L5/S1

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muscle nerve root? knee extension

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quadriceps femoral L3/4

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muscle nerve root? plantar flexion

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gastrocnemius, soleus bibial S1

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muscle nerve root? dorsiflexion

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tibialis anterior peroneal L5

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muscle nerve root? foot eversion

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peroneus muscles peroneal S1

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muscle nerve root? foot inversion

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tibialis posterior tibial L5

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muscle nerve root? great toe extension

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extensor hallucis longus peroneal L5

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biceps reflex

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C5

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brachioradialis reflex

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C6

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triceps reflex

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C7

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finger flexor reflex

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C8/T1

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patellar reflex

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L4

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hip adductor reflex

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L3

63
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ankle jerk reflex

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S1

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