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Neurology Flashcards

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What are the causes of acute confusion?

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HE IS OUT OF IT

  1. Hemorrhage
  2. EtOH
  3. Icterus (high ammonia levels)
  4. Sugar (Diabetes, DKA)
  5. hypOxemia
  6. Uremia
  7. Trauma
  8. Overdose
  9. Fits (seizures)
  10. Infections
  11. Tumor
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Papilledema on fundoscopic exam is indicitive of what?

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Intracranial hypertension

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What are the S/S of a subfalcine herniation?

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A subfalcine herniation results in contralateral LE motor weakness and sensory loss.

*the herniation causes compression of the MCA after the cingulate gyrus herniates under the falx cerebri

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