neuro assessment on pt Flashcards
1
olfactory - sensory
2
optic - sensory
3
oculomotor- motor
4
(4 corners are troch)
Trochlear (looking down)- motor
5
Trigeminal - Motor and Sensory
6
(6 is duces)
Abducens - motor (extraocular motor functions of the eye)
7
(7 faces)
facial - Motor and Sensory
8
(perfect pitch in 8)
Acoustic/
Vestibulocochlear - sensory
9
(9 lives, 9 glossy pharnyx)
Glossopharyngeal - Motor and Sensory
10
(turned 10 in vagus)
vagus - Motor and Sensory
11
(11 looks like it)
Spinal accessory- motor
12
(12 hyper tongue monkeys)
Hypoglossal- motor
1 - test
Close one nostril and identify a scent
2-test
(snell, am I holding up 2 fingers?)
Snellen test. Can use clock in room or ask pt to tell you how many fingers you’re holding up from a distance
3-test
(perrla is your fav number)
Use pen light; check one eye at a time
(test 6 cardinal field of gaze, PERRLA)
4-test
(four noses down)
Have the patient look down toward nose
5-test
Ask pt to clench teeth and palpate masseter muscle.
Test facial sensation w/gauze or or light touch (eyes closed)
6-test
(sex left and right)
Have patient look left and right
7-test
(7 eyes go to heaven)
Ask pt. to smile, raise eye brows; keep eyes closed while you try to open them
8-test
(whisper 8 is enough)
Use tuning fork /rub hair/whisper
Check gait, balance
9-test
(ahh, it’s 9)
Touch the back of the throat with tongue depressor
Have pt. say “Ahh”
10-test
(ahh, it’s 10 also)
Assessed with CNIX
(cough, say ahh)
11-test
Have pt. shrug shoulder and rotate head
12-test
(12 monkeys are cheeky)
stick tongue out move it internally from cheek to cheek
PNS - dorsal root - on test
travels afferent path - carries sensory info from peripheral toward CNS
ventral root
travels efferent - carries impulses away from the cns towards the periphery for motor control
broca’s area - what type of language?
expressive
