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Diagnostic Reasoning Test 3 Questions and Answers Graded A+
Used to diagnose acquired myasthenia gravis and moni-
tor patient response to immunosuportive therapy
Identify patients with PChE deficiency before anesthesia
Cholinesterase
or to identify those who maybe have been exposed to
phosphate poisoning
Ethanol
Evaluate
alcohol-impaired
driving
or
overdose
Graphical record of brain-wave activity obtained through
electrodes placed on the scalp and forehead
Caloric study
Used to evaluate the function of cranial nerve VIII. Can
indicate disease in temporal portion of the cerebrum
recording the strength of muscle contraction as a re-
Electromyography
(EMG)
Nerve
Conduction
Studies
sult
of
electrical
stimulation.
Can
identify
primary
muscle
diseases
and
ditterentiate
them
from
primary
neurologic
pathologic conditions
Performed to identify peripheral nerve injury in patients
with localized or dittuse weakness, muscle atrophy, dyses-
thesia, paresthesia, and neurogenic pain to ditterentiate
primary peripheral nerve disease from muscular injury.
Used to evaluate patients with vertigo and to ditterentiate
organic from psychogenic vertigo
Indicated for patients who have a suspected sensory
deficit but are unable to indicate or are unreliable in indi-
Evoked
Potential
studies
cating
recognition
of
a
stimulus.
Used
to
monitor
natural
progression
or
treatment
of
deteriorating
neurologic
dis-
eases such as MS
Diagnosis of primary or metastatic brain or spinal cord
neoplasm, cerebral hemorrhage, meninigtis, etc.
acetycholine
receptor
antibody
test
Electroencephalogram
(EEG)
electronystagmography
lumbar
puncture
