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Physical Assessment: Neurological System Flashcards

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Neurological System

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controls or affects the function of all body systems
-allows interaction with the external world
Basic Functions:
>cognition
>emotion
>memory
>sensation + perception
>regulation of homeostais
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Mental Status Assessment

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-patients appearance
-general behavior
-ability to speak clearly + response to questions
>any alterations could indicate and altered mental state

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Areas Assessed with a Mental Status Assessment

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  • cognitive status
  • orientation
  • memory
  • level of consciousness
  • abstract thinking
  • information processing
  • decision making
  • mood
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Level of Consciousness

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  • arousal: response to stimuli

- orientation: time, place, person

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ICU Psychosis

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psychotic episodes, classically occurring in coronary care patients, occurring within 24 hours after entering the ICU inpatients with no previous history of psychosis; related to sleep deprivation, over-stimulation in ICU and time spent

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Cognitive Orientation

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ability to identify person, place and time accurately

-referred to as levels of awareness

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Indicators of Cognitive Orientation

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  • identifies self + significant others
  • identifies correct day, month, year
  • identifies correct season
  • identifies significant current event
  • identifies where they are
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Indicators for recalling recent memory

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ex:
- what did you eat for breakfast? or
- who brought you to the hospital?

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Indicators for recalling remote memory

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ex: When is your birthday?
- when is your wedding anniversary?
- where were you born?

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Indicators for Immediate Memory?

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ex: ask to repeat a series of numbers
ex: say names of 3 unrelated objects. About 5 minutes later ask the patient to recall the words

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Information Processing

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ability to acquire, organize, and use information

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Indicators of ability to process information

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  • identifies common objects
  • reads + understands a short sentence or paragraph
  • verbalizes a coherent message
  • exhibits organized thought process
  • exhibits logical thought processes
  • explains similarity or dissimilarity between 2 items
  • adds or subtracts several numbers
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Mood

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refers to a persons enduring and prevailing emotional state
>Common terms to describe mood:
-affect
-labile
-flat affect
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Mood: Affect

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the outward expression of a persons emotional state

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Mood: Labile

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rapid fluctuating or changing mood

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Mood: Flat Affect

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  • lack of emotional response
  • lack of change in facial expression
  • flat voice tones
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Orientation

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refers to clients awareness of time, place, and person

“A, A, + O x3”

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Reflexes

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automatic responses

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Deep Tendon Reflexes (DTRs)

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automatic responses that do not require conscious thought from the brain

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Deep Tendon Reflexes: Graded Scale

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0= no response detected
\+1= diminished response
\+2= response normal
\+3= response somewhat stronger than normal
\+4= response hyperactive with clonus (involuntary contractions that continue after the first contraction is elicited by the hammer)
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Level of Consciousness (LOC)

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includes arousal and orientation
>arousal may range from alert to deeply comatose
-alert
-lethargic
-stupor 
-comatose
AVPU
A=alert
V= verbal stimuli
P= Painful stimuli
U= unresponsive
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Lethargic

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  • appears drowsy

- easily drifts off to sleep

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Stupor

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requires vigorous stimulation before responding

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Comatose

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does not respond to verbal or painful stimuli

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Mental Status Changes to expect in Older Adults

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  • severe changes + sudden loss of cognitive function = physical or mental illness
  • information processing speed, abstraction, and mental flexibility may decline with old age
  • ability to divide, switch, or maintain sustained attention may decline with old age
  • long-term memory remains stable while short-term memory exhibits more age-related changes
  • accumulation of practical experience or wisdom, continues until end of life

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