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Meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges that causes symptoms like headache, stiff neck, fever, and altered levels of consciousness. Nursing care involves rest, antibiotics, controlling increased intracranial pressure with medications, and monitoring for complications that may affect speech, vision, hearing or respiratory function. Outcomes vary depending on the cause but often include recovery periods with potential for recurring weakness or paralysis.

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Chart of Neuro Disorders

Meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges that causes symptoms like headache, stiff neck, fever, and altered levels of consciousness. Nursing care involves rest, antibiotics, controlling increased intracranial pressure with medications, and monitoring for complications that may affect speech, vision, hearing or respiratory function. Outcomes vary depending on the cause but often include recovery periods with potential for recurring weakness or paralysis.

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Disease Meningitis

Description inflammation of meninges

Symptoms constant h/a, stiff neck, extension of extemities with flexion of neck brain shift, h/a, fever, focal defects fever, h/a, focal symptoms, altered LOC fatigue, pain, dipolpia, vision problems, vertigo, ataxia, hearing problems exacerbation/remission: muscle weakness, respiratory dysfunction, fatigue, swallowing prob weakness, paralysis, has recovery period

Nursing care droplet precaution, rest, Drugs:antibiotics, anticonvulsant (Dilanton) MRI, CT show increased ICP MRI, CT ID size/location, control ICP, Drugs: antiseizure (pehnyotin) meds depend on type. acyclovir used for viral type monitor speech/vision/hearing, Drugs: immunosuppresant (Imuran), Corticosteroid (Prednisone) maintain patent airway, assess swallowing, sit client upright, anticholinesterase agents, Prostigmin inhibits breakdown of AcH WBC elevation, lumbar puncture shows increase in ICP, monitor resp, BP, skin breakdown. Drugs: neurotonin for pain avoidance of behaviors that cause pain. Drugs: antiseizure (Tegretol) protect eye, corticosteriod therapy (Prednisone) no cure, Dopamine blockers (Navane, Haldol)

Brain Abscess

infectious material within brain acute inflammation of brain tissue plaque development in white matter autoimmune, antibodies interfere with transmission of AcH acute destruction of myelin sheath

Encephalitis

Multiple Sclerosis

Myasthenia gravis

Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Trigeminal neuralgia

condition of 5th cranial nerve, unilateral shooting pain condition of 7th cranial nerve, paralysis of face hereditary, premature death of cells of basal ganglia loss of motor neurons in anterior horn overstimulation of AcH

pain, facial twitching

Bells palsy

unilateral paralysis, spontaneous recovery involuntary choreiform (abnormal involuntary movements) fatigue, cramps, incoordination, over reactive reflexes tremor, muscle regidity, bradykinesia, postural instability

Huntingtons

ALS

maintatain patent airway, Gluatmate antagonist (Rilutek), slows deterioration of motor neurons Dopaminergics, Dopamine agonists, Anticholinergics

Parkinsons

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