Lecture 44: Aut Nerv System Clinical Case

Question 1

Noninvasive Bedside tests

Answer 1

BP:
Normal: Fall in s20/10d mm Hg
Abnormal: Exceeds this

HR:

Question 2

Valsalva manooeuvre

What’s the spike in the graph represent

Answer 2

-Drop in BP = reflex tachycardia

Graph:
-Spike is baroreceptors working to help counter out effects to make it so you don’t pass out

Question 3

Test for sudomotor function

Answer 3

-Non-invasive

Question 4

Hyper-Excitability of Adrenal Glands

Answer 4

-Excess catecholamines released

• Symptoms:
  1) Anxiety
  2) Weightloss
  3) Palpaltations
  4) Tachycardia?nb

Question 5

Multiple Systems Atrophy

Examples

Cause

Answer 5

Examples:

• Shy-Drager syndrome
• Parkinson

Cause:
-Severe impairment to autonomic nervous system
-Neuronal degeneration mainly in the substantia nigra, striatum, autonomic nervous system- including ganglia and
hypothalamus, and cerebellum