Book 1 Flashcards
Clavicular, cervical, and scalp sites are commonly used for recording…
median nerve potentials
In the CNS, a myelin sheath forms around the…
axon
Cortical potentials will be most affected by…
Inhalational anesthetics
P14 is a _____-field potential.
far
Alternating click polarity…
minimizes stimulus artifact
A fused joint is known as…
ankylosis
Grounding the stimulated limb during a SSEP procedure decreases…
stimulus artifact
Patient history items that do not imact what we monitor, or how we interpret waveforms are…
age
sex
size of tumor
ethnicity
Decrease in latency is…
Increase in conduction velocity is…
Cerebellum is…
NEVER THE ANSWER
Amplitude decrease is known as…
attenuation
Abnormal tissue found on or in an organism, usually damaged by disease or trama
lesion
The obstruction of the blood supply to an organ or region of tissue, typically by a thrombus or embolus, causing local death of the tissue
infarction
Blood clot, air bubble, piece of fatty deposit, or other object that has been carried in the bloodstream to lodge in a vessel.
embolus
Blood clot
thrombosis
The time from the beginning to the end of each evoked potential sweep
analysis time
Balanced impedance range
5k ohms
Multiple sclerosis
inflammatory autoimmune disease in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged. NOT AN INHERITED DISORDER.
Age onset of MS
15-40 years
Optic neuritis
inflammation of the optic nerve
Optic neuritis is a symptom of…
MS
The early and late onset stage of optic neuritis is differentiated by…
unilateral (early) or bilateral (late) symptoms
Unthoff’s phenomenon (or sign)
A worsening of neurologic symptoms in MS when the body gets overheated from hot weather, exercise, fever or saunas. PTs show PARESTHESIA.
Lhermitte’s sign
An electrical sensation that runs down the back and into the limbs from involvement of the posterior columns, and is pronounced by bending the neck forward or backward (MS SYMPTOM)
If SSEPs show a 60Hz a cycle, the first step is to…
check the impedance, and adjust rate by 0.1/sec
60Hz cycle has a wavelength of…
16.6ms
MS is most likely to show an abnormality in the modality of…
Lower SSEPs due to a longer pathway
Contingent negative variation expectancy wave
a test of discrimination where a click is sometimes followed by a flash, in which a response is elicited when the flash is present
OSHA
occupational safety and health administration
OSHA may ask for…
SDS Sheets
Chassis leakage current check records
Chassis leakage current is tested…
Bi-annually
Semi-annually
2X PER YEAR
An ethics violation results in…
revocations of credentials
NOT STATE/FEDERAL CHARGES
If a patient is obunded, _____ can be used as a patient identifier.
PCP
If the patient does not speak english, who is qualified to serve as an interpreter?
An appointed hospital interpreter
Hand hygiene guidelines state that hands must be washed for…
20 seconds
MRSA is transmitted through…
touch
Hepetitis C is transmitted through…
blood