Spinal Cord Injuries Part 2
12 Questions
| Total Attempts: 149
Part 2 of the spinal cord injuries quizz for studying
Questions and Answers
- 1.Spinal center for urination is in the caudus equinus - S1-S2
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.Male sexual response with an upper motor neuron lesion causes a psychogenic response
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.What is not true about women and sexual dysfunction following a spinal cord injury?
- A.
Menstruation is not interrupted
- B.
Complications with pregnancy
- C.
Can become pregnant
- 4.What is not true about thermoregulation
- A.
Body has a hard time regulating temperature
- B.
Below level of lesion
- C.
Lesions above T6 - vasodilation
- D.
Ability to sweat and shiver is lost
- 5.Autonomic dysreflexia happens with lesions below T6
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.With autonomic dysreflexia a noxious stimuli below level of lesion triggers a massive sympathetic response.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.What is not true of what happens with a patient in autonomic dysreflexia
- A.
Can stop breathing
- B.
Can have retinal hemorrhage
- C.
Can have dangerously low BP
- D.
Can have seizures
- E.
Death is possible
- 8.Name 4 possible causes of autonomic dysreflexia
- A.
Noxious stimuli
- B.
Full bladder
- C.
Full bladder
- D.
Kinked catheter
- E.
Rapidly changing temperature in the environment
- 9.Local pain
- A.
At site of injury
- B.
Nerve root pain
- C.
Phantom pain
- 10.Radicular pain
- A.
Phantom pain
- B.
Deep bone pain
- C.
Nerve root pain
- 11.Dysesthesias
- A.
No pain
- B.
Nerve root pain
- C.
Phantom pain
- 12.What is not a secondary complication of spinal cord injuries
- A.
DVT
- B.
Changes in calcium metabolism
- C.
UTI
- D.
Postural hypertension
- E.
Kidney stones
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