N343 - Brain Tumors, Headaches, and Seizures
Understanding Brain Tumors, Headaches, and Seizures Quiz
Test your knowledge on brain tumors, headaches, and seizures with our comprehensive quiz! This engaging quiz consists of 33 questions designed to challenge your understanding of neurological conditions.
- Learn about seizure disorders
- Explore types of headaches
- Discover signs and symptoms of brain tumors
What is a seizure
A seizure is a sudden change in behavior due to an excessive electrical activity in the brain.
Uncontrolled convulsions
A metabolic imbalace
A sudden change due to a sudden decrease in electrical activity in the brain.
Epilepsy is idiopathic.
True
False
A seizure disorder
Is idiopathic
Is secondary to a known cause
Is
Generalized seizures
Only involve one side of the brain
A seizure in which consciousness is lost
Include tonic clonic and absent seizures
Begin deep in the brain
Always last more than 3 minutes
Are a medical emergency
The term status epilepticus is used when a seizure last more than 10 minutes.
True
False
Pseudoseizures
Always causes a loss of consciousness
Causes a nervous system disturbance
Has a psychological etiology
Is characterized by convulsions
Absent seizures
Are also called Petit mal seizures
Are generalized
Do not include a loss of consciousness
Have a quick recovery
Can be had 100s of times a day
Are not dangerous because they are so quic\
Partial seizures include all of the following except:
Always include a loss of consciousness
Unilateral
Start in the cortical areas
Are also known as focal seizures
Simple partial seizures
Include both hemispheres of the brain
Do not include a loss of consciousness
There are four types of partial seizures: motor, sensory, autonomic and psychic.
True
False
Motor seizures include which of the following
Laughter
Weakness
Dysphagia
Jerking of finger
Stiffening of an extremity
A Jacksonian March seizure
The patient appears to be marching
Stops gradually
Is seizure activity that marches along the body effecting adjacent areas
An adversive seizure
Is not a type of seizure
May cause the trunk and extremities to contract
Starts in the frontal lobe
Can develop into a generalized seizure
Hands and eyes turn toward the same side of focus
Psychic seizures include all of the following except
Can alter the way people think and feel
Are predictable
Make people feel they are outside their own body
Can include Déjà vu and Jamais vu
Sensory seizures can alter all five senses.
True
False
Autonomic seizures include nausea, pain, warmth, hunger, and goose pimples.
True
False
Complex partial seizures include which of the following
Impaired consciousness
Include repetitive movements
Is unilateral
May last 2-4 minutes with no recollection
May include strange behavior such as removing one's clothing
There are four types of headaches: migraine, cluster, rebound, and tension.
True
False
Common migraines include an aura.
True
False
When a migraine last more than 72 hours it is a status migrainous.
True
False
All are true about migraines except:
Unilateral
Include N/V, photophobia and phonophobia
Can be caused by foods containing tyramine and and nitrates
Is associated with high serotonin
The migraine cocktail includes all of the following except
Tordol
Norco
Reglean
Benadryl
Prophylactic treatment for migraines include anti-hypertensives.
True
False
Imitrex should be given for classic migraines.
True
False
A 32 year old male arrives to the ED. He complains of a severe headache around his eye. It typically lasts 1 hour and has been going on for five weeks. You suspect the patient has what type of headache
Petit Mal
Cluster
Migraine
Tension
The preferred treatment for cluster headaches is 100% O2 for 10 minutes.
True
False
Which are true regarding tension headaches
Are the most common
Include tightness
Treatment includes opiods
Elavil is used as a prophylaxis
Which of the following are not a characteristic of the Triad of Brain Tumors
Hypertension
Headache
Nausea/vomiting
Papilledema
Which are s/sx of a brain tumor
A headache worse in the morning
Mood and memory changes
Problems balancing and walking
Numbness or tingling
None of the above
Astrocytoma: primary tumor made up of small star shaped glial cells. Found in cerebrum in adults and brain stem, cerebrum or cerebellum in children. These are east to treat and have a high survival rate.
True
False
Which of the following is true about Glioblastoma.
It is the most common type of brain tumor.
It is a secondary brain tumor.
It is highly aggressive.
It is difficult to treat.
With an increase in ICP, a lumbar puncture is performed to assess for protein in the CSF, which is a positive sign of a brain tumor.
True
False
Effective treatments for IICP include all of the following except:
HTN medications
Decadron or Mannaitol
Surgery to remove the tumor
A shunt is implanted
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