2014 Flashcards
(19 cards)
types of common tremors
cause per type`
rest - parkinson, wilson
postural - physiologic, essential
intention - essential, cerabelar
drug MOA
XXXXXX PONE
COMT
drug MOA
XXXXXX GILINE
MOA B INHIBITORS
ropinirole
dopamin agonist
parkinson
clozapine
schisophrenia
dopamin ANTAGONIST
טיפול לטרשת נפוצה - היפר רפלקסיה של שלפוחית
inoxybutin
diagnosis method for first seizure after the age of 25
MRI
seizure tretment strategy
1 new seizures - (more then one) - 1 drug with loading dose 2 recuurent under therapy - # drug blood levels # consider slight dose increase # changing drug - after maximum theraputic benefit with the first drug # surgery - if everything failed for 2 years
ptc signs
headache, vomiting, naussa
vision bluring - can develope into vision loss
diplopia
papiledema
migrane treatment
simple analgestics
triptans
ergot alkaloids
migrane
age
55% before age 20. 90% before 40
migrane with aura (classic)
visual aura - scotoma and flickerings
usually not more than 1 attack/week
2-24 hours
remission - 2,3 trimesters, after menapause
classic - unilateral fronatal pain.
occasionally produces neurologic deficits
migrane without aura (common)
bilateral periorbital pain
4-72 hours!!! terminated by vomiting
carotid compression reduce the sevirety
CLUSTER HEADACHE
CLINICAL FINDINGS
very severe, unilateral, constant, nonthrobbing
15 minfrom to 3 hours.
always unilateral and usually recur on the same side
commonly at night, awakening the patient from sleep, and recur daily, often at nearly the same time of day (circadian periodicity),
for a cluster period of weeks to months.
hypothalamic activation.
Horner syndrome
alcohol or vasodilating drugs,
TENSION HEADACHE
after 20
bilateral occipital without nausea, vomiting or visual disturbance. tight band around the head.
hours to days
treatment:
acute - nsaid and same…
prophylactic - amitriptyline or impramine
HIV-associated dementia
HIV 1 related
cognitive, behavioral, and motor deficits.
primitive reflexes,
hyperreflexia, extensor plantar responses, and cerebellar ataxia.
brain death criteria
unresponsive +
Pupillary, corneal, and oropharyngeal responses are absent,
negative doll’s-head and cold-water caloric test.
negative apnea test
cause of coma must be known!
situations that produce brain death clinical picture (without true one)
hypothermia (32.2)
drug intoxication
neuromuscular blockage
shock
time needed for brain death criteria
6 hours - flat EEG
12 hours without EEG
24 hours anoxic brain without EEG
0 hours - absence of blood flow on angio or doppler