NURS 498 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Carbamazepine, Methylphenidate, Subthalamic Nucleus

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Nursing
• Course: NURS 498
• Professor: Gudrun Reay

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13 central nervous system depressants and muscle relaxant. Chapter 61: nursing management of chronic neurological problems. Epilepsy: a condition in which a person has at least two spontaneous seizures more than. 24 hours apart; it is caused by a chronic underlying pathology. Hu(cid:374)ti(cid:374)gto(cid:374)"s disease: a ge(cid:374)eti(cid:272)all(cid:455) transmitted autosomal dominant disorder that affects both men and women of all races; characterized by chronic, devastating loss of all neurological function, resulting in dementia. Multiple sclerosis: a chronic, progressive, degenerative disorder of the central nervous system; characterized by disseminated demyelination of nerve fibres of the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. Myasthenia gravis: an autoimmune disease of the neuromuscular junction; characterized by the fluctuating weakness of certain skeletal muscle groups. Parki(cid:374)so(cid:374)"s disease: a disease of the (cid:271)asal ga(cid:374)glia; (cid:272)hara(cid:272)terized (cid:271)(cid:455) a slo(cid:449)do(cid:449)(cid:374) i(cid:374) the initiation and execution of movement, increased muscle tone, tremor at rest and impaired postural reflexes. Pain is dramatic, causing physical and emotional disability.