Blueprints Neurology - random

Question 1

persistent vegetative state

Answer 1

pts have lost all awareness and cognitive function but may remain w/ their eyes open, exhibit sleep-wake cycles and maintain respiration/ANS functions

Question 2

locked-in syndrome

Answer 2

pt is awake and intact cognitively, with no abnormality of consciousness however a large lesion at the base of the pons has left them unable to move extremities and most of face

Question 3

criteria for brain death

Answer 3

• pt must be comatose
• absent brainstem reflexes
• no spontaneous respirations even when PCO2 is high (apnea test)

Question 4

acute confusional state

Answer 4

sometimes called encephalopathy or delirium; characterized by an inability to carry out a coherent plan of thought or action; primarily the result of a core problem with attention