Neurology — Flashcards

The skull is a rigid container of _____: The Monro-Kellie doctrine states that the sum of inctracranial volumes is constant, therefore an ↑ increase in one must be offset by an equivalent ↓ decrease in the other two

Hint: 3 key components

Vaccination against meningococcus groups A, C, W, Y is given _____

Hint: timing

The classic combination of _____, vomiting, and papilloedema is indicative of raised intracranial pressure

Hint: symptom

What is the pharmacological management for herniated disc with radiculopathy? _____

ICP is vital because as it ↑, the body _____ mean arterial pressure in order to maintain cerebral perfusion pressure

Hint: ↓/↑

_____ meningitis is associated with CSF findings: neutrophil/granulocyte predominance ↑ protein ↓ glucose

A patient with raised intracranial pressure should have a _____/MRI to rule out an underlying cause

If ICP rises significantly causing the compensatory reduction in blood flow and CSF to be exhausted, the pressure ↑ increases and _____ can occur

Hint: complication

Intraventricular catheters in invasive intracranial monitoring can also be used to ↓ ICP by _____

_____ is a possible clinical sign of meningitis that is described as flexion of the hip to 90o with pain on passive extension of the leg