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Seizure history of present illness questions - correct answer ✔Frequency -
age on first onset, length of sz,
Onset - chronic or acute?
Location - Where spams begins or change in motor activity
Duration - increasing, persisting
Character - aura, mood changes, focal motor actiity, flaccidity, tensions,
twitching, transient paralysis, sleep following sz, LOC, pupil changes, loss of
consciousness
Aggravating - Time of day, meals, emotional stress, poor compliance with
meds
Relieving - Meds
RED FLAG - Seizures from withdrawl or trauma with LOC


Differentials - Focal sz without impaired consciousness, generalized seizures,
toxic/metabolic seizures, drug toxicity


How would you assess CN 1? - correct answer ✔Olfactory - smell


How would you assess CN 2? - correct answer ✔Optic - visual fields/acuity


How would you assess CN III, IV, and VI? - correct answer ✔Oculomotor,
Trochlear, and Abducens
Cardinal gazes!
3 - up/down/peripherally (check accommodation, pupillary constriction, and
ptosis)
4 - Inferior lateral

, 7 - inferior lateral


How would you assess CN V? - correct answer ✔Trigeminal
Clench teeth
Sensations of face


How would you assess CN VII? - correct answer ✔Facial expression testing
(motor) + Taste (sensory)
Look for drooping/flattening of nasolabial fold


How would you assess CN VIII? - correct answer ✔Acoustic
Hearing & Balance
Weber & Rinne Test
Romberg test for vestibular ( no swaying )


How would you assess IX and X? - correct answer ✔Glossopharyngeal (9) &
Vagus (10)
9 - Swallowing water/taste + phonation
10 - Gag reflex, swallowing, phonation
Say "ahh" - no deviation of midline and able to sip and swallow water. Listen
to speech


How would you assess CN XI? - correct answer ✔Spinal Accessory -
trapezius and SCM muscle
Shrug


How would you assess CN XII? - correct answer ✔Hypoglossal

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