Cranial Nerve assessment Flashcards

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Identify a smell

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visual acuity and visual fields

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Tested with 4 and 6

  1. follow pen around visual fields
  2. Check how much eyelid covers of eye, should be 1/3
  3. Observe PEARL
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Tested with 3 and 6

  1. follow pen around visual fields
  2. Check how much eyelid covers of eye, should be 1/3
  3. Observe PEARL
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Get pt to close eyes
Touch 3 divisions of nerve on both sides

Get pt to grit teeth

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Tested with 3 and 4

  1. follow pen around visual fields
  2. Check how much eyelid covers of eye, should be 1/3
  3. Observe PEARL
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Ovesrve facial symmetry

Frown, show teeth, puff cheeks and try to open closed eyes

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Occlude ear and whisper in the other

Ask pt about vertigo, tinnitus or alterations in balance

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Gag reflex - not done
Ask pt to say ‘kick the cat’
Swallow water observe for coughing

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Tested with 9.

Observe ability to cough, intubated pts observe for cough on suctioning

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Raise shoulders against resist

Puff cheeks

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Move tongue side to side, poke tongue into cheek

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