Head of bed up 50 degrees
Suctioning as little as possible
Facilitate quiet surroundings
Decrease amount of sensory stimuli
Increased blood return to the heart
Slows the pulse
Increases intrathoracic pressure
Exhaling with the glottis and nose closed
Cardiac condition
Gait
Balance
Muscle function
Limit suctioning
Limit visitors
Avoid rectal temps
Avoid Valsalva maneuver
Sense of pain
Control of hormones
Sense of thirst
Homeostasis
Ipsilateral sensory loss
Lower extremity more involved
Upper extremity more involved
Lower extremity less involved
COPD
Diabetes
Atheroschlerosis
Autonomic Dysreflexia
Early onset of Horner's Syndrome
Acute Myocardial Infarction
Hypoglycemic condition
Contralateral sensory deficits
Degenerative Disease
Rigidity
Mask-like effect
Horner's syndrome
Autonomic Dysreflexia
Trans Ischemic Attack
Parkinson's Disease
Fluctuating exacerbations
Rigidity
Bradykinesia
Loss of inhibitory dopamine
Mask-like affect
Bowel and bladder deficits
Ataxic gait
Sensory Deficits
Decreased gamma globulin
Lumbar puncture
CT/MRI
Myelogram
Both hypotension and bradycardia
Hypotension
Bradycardia
Hypertension
Anticholinesterase drug use & severe weakness
Use of anticholinesterase drug treatment
Severe weakness--proximal more so than distal
Fluctuating exacerabations
Arrythmias
Motor paralysis in an decending pattern
Demyelination of peripheral and cerebellar nerves
10% mortality rate
Spasticity
Death typically in 3-6 years
Cognition impairment
Only lower motor neuron involvement
Abnormal fatigue, and pain related to myalgia
Abnormal fatigue
Quickly progressive muscle weakness
Pain from myalgia
Epilepsy
Tonic-clonic seizures
Complex seizures
Petit mal seizure
Petit mal
Epilepsy
Tonic-clonic
Complex seizures
Diplococcus pneumoniae
Haemophilus influenzae
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Neisseria meningitidis
Cognition is normal
Fever
Kernig's sign
Brudzinski's sign
Brown-Sequard syndrome
Anterior cord syndrome
Central cord syndrome
Sacral sparing
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