Study questions for cerebral dysfunction in children
1. What are the components of the glascow coma scale?
2. What are the signs of increasing intracranial pressure in infants? In children and adolescents?
3. What is the focus of nursing care for the child in a coma?
4. What will increase icp in an unconscious child?
5. What medications could be used in a child with increased intracranial pressure?
6. What are the clinical manifestations of acute head injury?
A. What sign would point to a basilar skull fracture?
B. What are the steps in managing acute head injury?
C. What is the nursing care for a child with acute head injury?
7. What are the physiological features of submersion injury?
A. What is the therapeutic management and nursing care for a child with submersion injury?
B. How is brain death established?
8. What are the clinical manifestations of bacterial and viral meningitis and encephalitis?
A. What is kernigs sign, brudzinskis sign and nuchal rigidity?
B. What is the therapeutic and nursing care of a child with a cns infection?
9. What are the causes of seizures in children?
10. What are the clinical manifestations of the different types of seizures in children?
A. What observations should the nurse make while a child is having a seizure?
B. What are the nursing interventions for a child with seizures?
C. What are the different management strategies used in children?
D. What are seizure precautions?
E. What is status epilepticus and how is it managed?
11. What are the clinical manifestations, management, and nursing care of hydrocephalus?
A. What is postoperative care for a vp shunt?
