2024 ABRET Practice Exam Part 1 Complete Questions & Answers (Solved) 100% Correct
- Once EEG data is acquired there is an expectation that the information will be
protected. This means
Answer: all staff are accountable for protecting the patient confidentiality
- Temporal Lobe Epilepsy accounts for what % of all patients with epilepsy?-
Answer: 60%
- Precocious puberty is associated with pathology of the
Answer: hypothalamus
- What clinical signs are expected to be seen if a patient has a stroke involving the left
anterior cerebral artery?
Answer: Right lower extremity sensory loss
- A meningioma is usually
Answer: encapsulated
- Bell's palsy is characterized by
Answer: facial paralysis
- Which of the following is characterized by dementia, myoclonus, and biphasic or
triphasic repetitive discharges?
Answer: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
8. CRANIAL NERVES
Answer: Four have both sensory and motor functions
9. The onset of West syndrome is most likely to occur at age:
Answer: 4 months
- What type of electricity provides a steady source of current, flowing in one
direction only?
Answer: Direct current
- Which electrode type gives the LEAST distortion of low frequencies?
Answer: Silver-silver chloride
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- The onset of Sturge-Weber disease is typically during
Answer: Infancy
13. HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPSIA
Answer: Loss of the left or right visual field in both eyes
- The most important source generator of the EEG is
Answer: pyramidal dendritic PSPs
- During an absence seizure, the technologist should
Answer: test the patient's level of consciousness
- ACTH is used to treat
Answer: Infantile spasms
- Decorticate posturing is characterized by
Answer: bilateral flexion at the elbows
- Reduction of health care-associated infections is addressed by
Answer: National Patient Safety Goals
- Which of the following separates the motor cortex from the sensory cortex?
Answer: Rolandic fissure
- Which of the following should be documented in the history?
Answer: The patient had dialysis this morning
- The EEG is MOST useful in evaluating
Answer: seizure disorders
- Life-threatening current could pass through a patient if
Answer: the machine ground is not intact
- Which of the following is a violation of ABRET's Code of Ethics?
Answer: Not striving to keep current in the technology
- In the International 10-20 electrode placements, C6 is located on which part of the
head?
Answer: Right
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