neurological system diagnosis Part 1

Anacephaly is

absence of brain, but there is always some brainstem present for survival

What is the commonest defect in stillborns

anacephaly

Anacephaly is

absence of brain, but there is always some brainstem present for survival

What is the commonest defect in stillborns

anacephaly

very few with anencephaly live, most have

acrania: absence of cranial vault

anacephaly results from failure

of the nerual folds in the cranial end to fuse and form the forebrain

Anacephaly treatment PT

very involved, positioning, handling, ROM seating equipment

microcephaly is

small cranium and nomral face size (so you have to see in the back); severe CP; grossly MR

What is the treatment for microcephaly

often atnr, positioning, W/C. windswept, pelvic obliquity

Hydrocephaly is

any abnormality characterized by accumulation of CSF in the cranial vault

how does hydrocephalus results from

overproduction of CSF or failure of absorption of CSF or obstruction to the flow of CSF as in arnold chiarri malmosral seen in myelomeningocele or any ventricular stenosis

Arnold Chiarri

foramen magum too big cerebllar peduncles go through cut off 4th ventricle

With hydrocephalus optic n. gets hit first so the worst is when you see

one eye crossing GO TO ER

what’s the most common way the hydrocephalus to occur

obstruction of the flow

Hydrocephalus Cn involvement you’ll see

stabismus; one eye goes in one eye goes out

exotropia

one eye out

esotropia

one eye in

clinical signs of hydrocephalus

full anterior fontanelle, split cranial sutures

treatment hydrocephalus

VP shunt (ventriculoperitoneal from lateral vent to peritoneal space in abdomen. monitor risk for shunt malfunction and increasing hydrocephalus

VP shunt the coil is

in the lateral ventricle goes to the peritoneum