2024 ABRET Exam Prep

2024 ABRET Exam Prep Complete Questions & Answers (Solved) 100% Correct

• Which is important to document to aid in interpretation?
• low grade fever
• uncooperative pt
• pt was awake and alert during recording

d) HV was not performed due to asthma

Answer: c

• What additional electrodes could help decipher b/w artifact and cortical activity?
• respiration transducer
• sphenoidal

c) EMG

d) EOG

Answer: d

• What additional monitoring should be done in a middle age pt who repeat- edly

alerts from sleep during EEG?

• eye movement
• movement
• muscle tone
• respiration

Answer: d

• Which of the following extra electrodes might best demonstrate the EEG activity

associated with focal motor twitching of the right corner of the mouth?

a) P5

b) FT9 (T1)

c) C1

d) C5

Answer: d

• An abbreviated 10-20 placement, respiration, ECG, and EOG
• neonates
• toddlers

c) ICU pts

d) Elderly pts

Answer: a 1 / 4

• Cortical EEG recording can be obscured in pts who are tense and anxious due to
• multifocal spikes
• delta slowing
• generalized spike wave
• myogenic artifact

Answer: d

• What type of monitoring would be useful in an EEG pt experiencing syn- cope?
• movement transducer
• respiration transducer

c) EOG

d) ECG

Answer: d

8. BRAIN ABCESS

• burst suppression

b) ECI

• focal polymorphic delta activity
• diffuse slowing

Answer: c

• Sphenoidal electrodes are used to record activity from the
• brain stem
• anterior temp lobes
• basal ganglia
• mesial frontal lobes

Answer: b

• A slow wave focus is best seen w/

a) LF 0.3Hz, paper speed 60mm/sec

b) HF 70Hz, paper speed 60mm/sec

c) LF 5Hz, paper speed 15mm/sec

d) LF 0.3Hz, paper speed 15mm/sec

Answer: d

• The best reference electrode in an awake pt w/ excessive temporal myo- genic

activity would be

• ear lobes
• mastoids 2 / 4

• neck

d) Cz

Answer: d

• 14 & 6Hz positive spikes are best recorded w/
• avg reference
• contralateral ear reference
• bipolar chain
• both ears connected to reference

Answer: b

• Which montage would best display the amp of a left temp spike?
• left temp to ipsi ear
• left temp to contra ear
• ant-post bipolar temp chain
• transverse (coronal) bipolar chain

Answer: b

• BEST choice of reference to be used when recording in suspected temp lob

epilepsy

a) A1+A2

• ipsi ear

c) Cz

d) Nasopharyngeals

Answer: c

• Which settings will help enhance a low volt slow wave that's being masked by

muscle activity?

• sens 2; LF 5; HF 35
• sens 10; LF 1; HF 5
• sens 5; LF 0.3; HF 35
• sens 7; LF 1; HF 70

Answer: c

• Most appropriate setting change that should be made to enhance cortical

slowing?

• change LFF from 1Hz to 0.1Hz
• change HFF from 70Hz to 15Hz
• change LFF from 1Hz to 5Hz 3 / 4

• change HFF from 70Hz to 25Hz

Answer: a

• When using avg reference, if a spike-and-wave focus appears at C3, the

abnormality would be best enhanced by

• using 35Hz filter and time constant of 0.03sec
• decreasing sensitivty
• excluding C3 and surrounding electrodes from reference
• switching to Cz referential montage

Answer: c

• Which setting could be used to reduce the effects of sweat artifact in a pt w/

asymmetrical low-volt fast activity?

a) S=4mv/mm, LF=1Hz, HF=70Hz

b) S=5mv/mm, LF=5Hz, HF=70Hz

c) S=15mv/mm, LF=5Hz, HF=70Hz

d) S=10mv/mm, LF=0.3Hz, HF=35Hz

Answer: b

• Laplacian montage
• end of chain montage
• fast fourier transform
• avg reference
• source reference derivation

Answer: d

• When attempting to minimize relentless muscle artifact, the technologist should

be aware that lowing the HFF could cause artifact to resemble

• 3Hz spike and wave
• beta activity
• polymorphic delta activity
• vertex waves

Answer: b

• Which montage would be best to localize occipital spikes by phase rever- sal?
• circumferential bipolar
• transverse bipolar
• contralateral ear referential
• common avg

Answer: a

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