The Central Nervous System MD0572

✍ Scribed by US Army medical department

• Publisher: US Army medical department
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 123
• Series: US Army medical course
• Edition: 100
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

DEVELOPMENT
ADMINISTRATION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
LESSON 1
1-1. INTRODUCTION
1-2. ROLE OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
1-3. ORGANIZATION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
1-4. CELL ORGANIZATION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
1-5. COMPONENTS OF NEURONS
1-6. TYPES OF NEURONS
1-7. REFLEX ARC
1-8. NERVE IMPULSE TRANSMISSION
1-9. MAJOR COMPONENTS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
1-10. PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (PNS)
EXERCISES
SOLUTIONS
LESSON 2
PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
2-1. INTRODUCTION
2-2. COMMON MALFUNCTIONS
2-3. GENERALIZED NEUROLOGICAL EXAMINATION COMPONENTS
2-4. DETAILED NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION
2-5. CLOSING STATEMENT
EXERCISES
SOLUTIONS
LESSON 3
Section I. DISEASES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
3-1. INTRODUCTION
3-2. MENINGITIS
3-3. ENCEPHALITIS
3-4. POLIOMYELITIS (INFANTILE PARALYSIS)
3-5. PARKINSONISM (PARKINSON'S DISEASE)
3-6. AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS) (Lou Gehrig's disease)
3-7. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS)
Section II. DISORDERS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
3-8. INTRODUCTION
3-9. DISORDERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
3-10. COMMON NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS
3-11. CLOSING STATEMENT
EXERCISES
SOLUTIONS
LESSON 4
SEIZURES
4-1. INTRODUCTION
4-2. CAUSES OF SEIZURES AND EPILEPSY
4-3. CLASSIFICATION OF EPILEPTIC SEIZURES
4-4. TREATMENT OF SEIZURE DISORDERS
4-5. CLOSING STATEMENT
EXERCISES
SOLUTIONS
LESSON 5
Section I. HEAD INJURY
5-1. INTRODUCTION
5-2. GENERAL INFORMATION
5-3. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
5-4. INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE (ICP)
5-5. ANOXIC BRAIN INJURY
5-6. SPECIFIC TYPES OF HEAD INJURY
5-7. GENERAL ASSESSMENT OF HEAD TRAUMA
5-8. JUDGING LEVEL OF SEVERITY OF HEAD INJURY
5-9. LEVELS OF HEAD INJURY
5-10. GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF HEAD TRAUMA
Section II. SPINAL CORD INJURY
5-11. GENERAL INFORMATION
5-12. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
5-13. INJURY TO THE SPINAL CORD
5-14. MECHANISM OF INJURY
5-15. MANDATORY TREATMENT FOR SPINAL INJURY
5-16. GENERAL ASSESSMENT
5-17. PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT
5-18. TREATMENT FOR SPINAL CORD INJURY
5-19. COMPLICATIONS OF SPINAL CORD INJURY
Section III. IMMOBILIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR SPINAL CORD INJURY
5-20. INTRODUCTION
5-21. CERVICAL COLLAR (C-COLLAR)
5-22. KENDRICK EXTRICATION DEVICE (KED)
5-23. SHORT SPINE BOARD
5-24. LONG SPINE BOARD
5-25. SCOOP STRETCHER
Section IV. MANAGEMENT OF SPINAL CORD INJURY
5-26. COMMON ERRORS IN MANAGEMENT
5-27. CLOSING
EXERCISES
SOLUTIONS