2024 ABRET Exam Study Guide A+ Rated Guide | Questions and Answers (Solved)
- What are the main patient history questions we need to ask patients?
Answer: Why, When, Major Illness, How Often, FMH, handedness, sleep deprived,
aura, LOC
- In regards to pt history, what special questions to children get asked?
Answer: Full Term, Gestational, conceptual, chronological age
- In regards to pt history, what special questions get asked in regards to comatose
pts?
Answer: Onset of unresponsiveness, cause, response to stimuli
- In regards to pt history, what special questions get asked in regards to szs?
Answer: Start date, what happens during, aura, loc, happens after, time of day, last event
- In regards to pt history, what special questions get asked in regards to headache?
Answer: start date, fz, duration, location
- In regards to pt history, what special questions get asked in regards to head trauma?
Answer: loc, loss of memory, sz, location, skull defect
- In regards to pt history, what special questions get asked in regards to tumor?
Answer: Sudden, language problems, personality difference
- In regards to pt history, what special questions get asked in regards to stroke?
Answer: sudden, side, aphasia, headache, improved
- What is the encephalon?
Answer: Whole brain
- What is the cerebrum?
Answer: two cerebral hemispheres
- Where is the cerebellum?
Answer: at very back of brain
- What is the function of the cerebellum?
Answer: movement, timing, coordination, motor learning 1 / 2
- Where is the brainstem?
Answer: between brain and spinal cord
- What is the function of the brainstem?
Answer: controls neural flow of messages btwn brain and body, controls breathing, swallow, heart, BP
- What is a hemisphere?
Answer: one half of brain
- What is a ventricle?
Answer: fluid filled cavity in brain
- What are the meninges?
Answer: 3 membranes btwn brain and skull
- What are the meninges outermost to innermost?
Answer: dura mater, arachnoid, and pia mater
- What is CN I?`
Answer: Olfactory
- What is CN II?
Answer: Optic
- What is CN III?
Answer: Oculomotor
- What is CN IV?
Answer: Trochlear
- What is CN V?
Answer: Trigeminal
- What is CN VI?
Answer: Abducens
- What is CN VII?
Answer: Facial
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