PGR Shared "nursing 2: mobility" - 9 Picmonics
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nursing 2: mobility
- Assessment
- Decreased Dopamine
- Older Adult
- Cogwheel Rigidity
- Bradykinesia
- Shuffling Gait
- Resting Tremor
- Pill-Rolling
- Mask-Like Face
- Cognitive Decline
- Medications
- Levodopa/Carbidopa (Sinemet)
- Entacapone (Comtan)
- Selegiline (Eldepryl)
- Amantadine (Symmetrel)
- Bromocriptine (Parlodel)
- Benztropine (Cogentin)
- Considerations
- Allow Extra Time
- Ensure Patient Safety
- Surgery As Last Resort
- Cause/Mechanism
- Nerve Fiber Demyelination
- Assessment
- Motor Issues
- Cerebellar Signs
- Fatigue
- Paresthesias
- Spasticity
- Urinary Incontinence
- Optic Neuritis
- Considerations
- Women Between 20-50 Years Old
- Relapse and Remission of Symptoms
- Drug Therapy
- Corticosteroids
- Interferon Beta
- Dimethyl Fumarate (Tecfidera)
- Fingolimod (Gilenya)
- Mitoxantrone (Novantrone)
- Natalizumab (Tysabri)
- Considerations
- Increase Exercise
- Identify Triggers
- Assessment
- Progressive Muscle Weakness
- Systemic Muscle Wasting
- Fasciculations
- Spasticity
- Fatigue
- Considerations
- Riluzole (Rilutek)
- Stretching
- Little to No Cognitive Decline
- Respiratory Support
- Palliative Care
- Cause
- Compression or Damage to Sciatic Nerve
- Herniated Disc
- Assessment
- Shooting Pain
- Lower Back Down to Thigh
- Interventions
- Anti-Inflammatories
- Steroid Injections
- IDET (Intradiscal Electrothermoplasty)
- Considerations
- Straight-leg Raising Test
- Pain
- Paresthesia
- Pulse
- Pallor
- Pressure
- Paralysis
- Cause/Mechanism
- Spine Trauma
- Natural Degeneration
- Spinal Stenosis
- Assessment
- Pain
- Weakness
- Urinary and Fecal Incontinence
- Interventions
- Brace
- Medications
- Outpatient Procedures
- Surgery
- Parkinsons Characteristics
- Decreased Dopamine
- Increased Acetylcholine
- Drug Names
- BALSA Acronym
- Bromocriptine
- Amantadine
- Levodopa
- Selegiline
- Antimuscarinics
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