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Trigeminal Nerve Injury (Lui) Flashcards

1
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What are initial questions to ask if patient present complaining of neuropathy?

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  1. When was the procedure
  2. When did symptoms start
  3. Are symptoms the same, improving, getting worse
  4. Are you in pain?
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What is the layman’s term for distorted sensation?

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Numbness

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What are 3 primary things that could cause a patient to seek treatment in a nerve injury?

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  1. Distorted sensation
  2. Impaired function
  3. Pain (dysethesia)
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Which nerves has a LOWER rate of spontaneous regeneration: those in soft tissue or those in bony canal?

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Soft Tissue

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5
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Which nerve has better chance of spontaneous recovery: lingual or IAN and why?

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IAN, inside a bony canal

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6
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What provides the best opportunity for sensory recover if an observed or known injury occurs?

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Prompt microsurgery

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7
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Full recovery in 1 month indicates what?

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Neurapraxia (bruised nerve)

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8
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Is recovery anticipated if neurosensory dysfunction lasts for >1 month and what does that indicate?

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It indicates a higher grade injury with uncertain spontaneous recovery

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9
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If have a patient has nerve injury symptoms for more than 1 month, what diagnosis should you consider?

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Microsurgical consult

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10
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Most injuries resolve in ____ months, but only if improvement begins before ___ months?

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3-9 months 3 months

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11
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What is prognosis for patient that is anesthetic at 3 months?

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Poor

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Will surgery improve function and objective testing or will it reduce pt’s pain and their subjective feeling of numbness?

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Improve function and objective results only

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13
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Numbness is subjective or objective feeling?

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Subjective

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What is the only objective way to know the extent and what the nerve problem is?

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Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST)

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15
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Myelination increases what?

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Conduction velocity

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16
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Do nerves have blood vessels?

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Yes

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17
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What are 3 types of neural fascicular patterns?

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  1. Monofascicular
  2. Oligofascicular
  3. Polyfascicular
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18
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Which fascicular pattern is severly damaged easier?

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Monofascicular

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19
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What is the big picture with the QST with respect to conduction velocities?

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Different fibers have different velocities

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20
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The pseudo unipolar neurons of CN V region in which ganglion and head where?

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Trigeminal ganglia and go to the trigeminal nucleus

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21
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What tract does the trigeminal nerve impulse travel to get to the primary somatosensory cortex?

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Trigeminothalamic

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22
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What are 7 common causes of nerve injury?

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  1. Local anesthesia
  2. Implant placement
  3. Endodontic therapy
  4. Mucoperiosteal flap
  5. Chemical
  6. Infection (Vincent’s syndrome)
  7. Third molar surgery
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23
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What are 7 chemicals that can cause neurotrauma?

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  1. Tetracycline power
  2. Surgical
  3. Canoy’s solution
  4. Eugenol
  5. Intracanal endodontic medicaments
  6. Calcium hydroxide
  7. Local anesthetics
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What should you do if you know that an implant has approximated the IAN?

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Remove and replace immediately

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25
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What degree is a nerve injury that reaches to the endoneurium?

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1st degree

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26
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What degree is the nerve injury that goes through the endoneurium?

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2nd degree

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27
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What degree is a nerve injury going to the perineurium?

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3rd degree

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28
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What degree is a nerve injury through the perineruium?

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4th degree

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29
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What degree is a nerve injury through the epineurium?

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5th degree

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30
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What can form at the end of a nerve injury and prevent healing or transmission?

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Neuroma (Wallerian degeneration)

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31
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What is the difference between Sunderland and Seddon nerve injury classifications?

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Sunderland is 5 degrees, Sneddon is 3

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32
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Seddon Neurapraxia is what degree in Sunderland?

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1st degree

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33
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Seddon Axontomesis is what degree in Sunderland?

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2nd degree

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34
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Seddon Neurotomesis is what degree in Sunderland?

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5th degree

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35
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Neurapraxia (Seddon) / Sunderland 1st degree takes how long to heal?

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4 weeks

36
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Axonotomesis (Seddon) / Sunderland 2nd Degree takes how long to heal?

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Recovery in 1-3 months

37
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Neurotomesis (Seddon) / Sunderland 5th degree is what type of disruption?

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Complete transaction

38
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What is the proximal axon tying to do to heal the distal nerve that is severed from it?

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Increase metabolism to grow axons out and recanniculate with distal nerve

39
Q

Which respond better to healing, myelinated or unmyelinated?

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Myelinated

40
Q

What are 4 neuroma formations?

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  1. Amputation neuroma
  2. Neuroma in continuity
  3. Lateral exophytic neuroma
  4. Lateral adhesive neuroma
41
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Why is operator unable to draw a straight line when marking cutaneous feelings of a QST?

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Due to recruitment / collateralization of other nerves

42
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What are 3 theories of local anesthetic nerve injury?

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  1. Needle to nerve
  2. Hematoma, inside nerve
  3. Neurotoxicity
43
Q

Did a cadaver study show that a needle would pierce fascicles to cause direct trauma?

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No, showed it passed between fascicles

44
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Of the 3 local anesthesia theories, what is the one that does not require direct contact of the needle with the nerve?

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Neurotoxicity

45
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What is the fascicular pattern of the lingual and IANs near the lingula?

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Lingual, monofascicular

IAN, multifascicular

46
Q

What are the percentages of lingual and IAN nerve damages when hit?

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Lingual 70%

IAN 30%

47
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What are 3 levels of the QST?

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  1. Directional discrimination (moving stimulus and 2 point)
  2. Contact detection
  3. Pain (noxious stimulant)
48
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What is the term for pain to normal touch?

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Allydonia

49
Q

Level A brush stroke measures what fiber responses?

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A-alpha

A-beta

50
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Level A 2 point detection tests what fiber response?

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A-beta

51
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Level B von Frey (contact) detection tests what fiber response?

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A-gamma

52
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Level C noxious pinch test what fiber response?

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A-delta, C

53
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What is the term for elicitation of electric shock like paresthesisas and distal radiating pain in response to tapping or compressing an injured nerve trunk hot spot or demyelinated zone?

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Tinel’s sign

54
Q

Tinel’s sign usually indicated what formation?

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Neuroma formation, Wallerian degeneration

55
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What type of response is Tinel’s sign to stimulus?

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Hyperpathia

56
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What uses imagery to visualize and compare stimulation of the normal and affected sides for behavioral?

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Sensory re-education stimulation

57
Q

What are 2 pharmalogical treatments for trigeminal nerve injury?

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  1. Anticonvulsant (gabapentin)

2. Antidepressant and anxiolytic

58
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What is a compound prescription for trigeminal nerve injury?

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CGKL
Clondine 0.2
Gabapentin 8
Ketamine 10
Lidocaine 5%
59
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The lingual nerve is best treated in what time frame?

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1-3 months

60
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IAN is best treated in what time frame?

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3-6 months

61
Q

What should a patient be told prior to nerve repair?

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May not restore to pre-injury function. If lingual, do not expect return of taste sensation.

62
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Is surgery indicated if a patient’s symptoms are improving?

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No

63
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Why might delayed repair be indicated after BSSO?

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Amount of inflammation and increased vascularity will make a difficult surgical field

64
Q

If placing an implant and you make direct contact with the IAN, what should you do?

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Reposition immediately to 2mm separation from canal. If the implant is not stable, remove.

65
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What has better results: end to end anastamosis or nerve grafting?

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End to end anastomosis

66
Q

What is the term for removal of surrounding bony, soft tissue structure and / or foreign material around the nerve?

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External decompression

67
Q

Where is the opening of the epineurium to inspect and decompress the nerve fascicles?

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Internal neurolysis

68
Q

What is the term for the removal of neuroma associate with a nerve?

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Excision of neuroma

69
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What is the term for microsurgical anastamosis of a transected nerve?

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Neururrhaphy

70
Q

What is the placement of a nerve graft (allogenic or autogenous) for nerve reconstruction?

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nerve graft

71
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What is the microsurgical anastamosis of a distal nerve to a different proximal nerve via an interposed nerve graft? (what does this even mean?)

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Nerve sharing

72
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What is the term for the placement of a conduit to guide axonal sprouting and regeneration across a nerve gap from proximal to distal portions of a nerve?

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Guided nerve regeneration

73
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What is the term for the microsurgical transaction and removal of a segment of a peripheral nerve?

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Neurectomy

74
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What is the term for covering of the proximal stump of a transected nerve with its epineurium to prevent neuroma formation?

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Nerve capping

75
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What is the term for redirection of a nerve’s sensory innervations to a different anatomic location (usually adjacent muscle), usually done to prevent or minimize deafferentation?

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Nerve redirection

76
Q

OMFS uses what nerve graft materials?

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Bovine, don’t risk donor site complications

77
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What is the pain response called if the patient has pain in level A of QST with a brushstroke?

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Allydonia

78
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What is the pain response called if pt has pain in level B of QST with repetitive stimulus evoked pain?

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Hyperpathia

79
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What is the pain response called if pt has pain in Level C of QST with noxious mechanical stimulus?

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Hyperalgesia

80
Q

What is the key to everything done when evaluating and planning for Nerve injury and therapy?

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Document

81
Q

Which heal better: trigeminal nerve injuries involving distal segments or those involving proximal segments?

A

Distal

82
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Does spontaneous sensory recovery occur in all patients?

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No. Only most patients.

83
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What are three important aspects of early recovery prediction?

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  1. It is difficult
  2. It may not be complete
  3. It may not be to the patient’s satisfaction
84
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When should a referral for nerve injury care be considered?

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  1. Based on individual patient needs
  2. Criteria and indications for surgery are met (usually within 3 months of injury)
  3. Patient acceptance of surgery
  4. Outcome expectations need to be realistic
85
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What percentage of patients with a permanent nerve injury reported that it felt like a perfectly normal injection?

A

40

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