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Buzzwords Flashcards

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Thunderclap headache

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Subarachnoid haemorrhage

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2
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Xanthochromic (fresh blood/traumatic tap) Lumbar Puncture

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subarachnoid haemorrhage

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3
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Lucid period after head trauma

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extradural haemorrhage

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4
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Cogwheel rigidity

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Parkinsons

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5
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woody texture of muscles

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Duchenne’s or Becker’s MD

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Raised CK

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Muscular Dystrophy

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toe walker or positive gowers sign

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Muscular Dystrophy

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Mask like expression

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Parkinson’s

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Fluctuating Cognitive Deficit

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Must be either: Lewy Body Dementia OR Delirium

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REM disturbance (later in night)

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Lewy Body Dementia or Parkinsons

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Vivid visual hallucinations, normally of children, and not threatening

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Lewy Body Dementia

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“Acute Onset” Cognitive disturbance that fluctuates

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delirium

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Personality/behaviour changes and then dementia

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Frontotemporal dementia (Pick’s disease)

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Memory and personality problems in someone with a history of cardiovascular disease

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Vascular Dementia

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15
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Stepwise deterioration

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Vascular Dementia

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Pain on loud noise

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facial nerve palsy

17
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Painful third nerve palsy

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posterior communicating artery aneurysm

18
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Myalgia + myositis + myoglobulinaemia/uria

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Rhabdomyolysis

19
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Inflammatory myopathy with poor response to steroids

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Inclusion body myositis

20
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Weakness + frontal balding + cataracts + ptosis

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Myotonic dystrophy

21
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Leg symptoms + midline shift

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Falcine herniation

22
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Back pain worse on coughing

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slipped disc

23
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Headache worse on coughing

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posterior fossa issue

24
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BL sciatica + male sexual dysfunction +/- bowel and bladder symptoms

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cauda equina

25
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Pleocytosis on CSF

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need to rule out bacterial meningitis

26
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Migraine prophylaxis?

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  1. 1st line propranolol, topiramate or amitriptyline; 2nd line valproate, pizotifen, gabapentin, pregabalin (if one drug does not work by 4/12, try another)
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Injury upper brachial plexus, shoulder dystocia

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Erb’s palsy

28
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Injury lower brachial plexus, Klumpke’s palsy (claw hand)

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Horner’s syndrome

29
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+ve Simmond’s test -

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Achilles tendon rupture

30
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Anti acetylcholine receptor antibody

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myasthenia gravis

31
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Purely motor symptoms (UMN and LMN) with ocular sparing

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motor neuron disease

32
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high stepping gait + Romberg’s positive

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cervical myelopathy

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