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Whar are the signs of barbituate withdrawl?
"Anxiety, seizures, delirium, life-threatening CV collapse"
Whar are the signs of nicotine withdrawl?
"Irritablility, headache, anxiety, weight gain, craving, tachycardia"
Whare are the 4 A's of schizophrenia?
"Ambivalence(uncertainty), Autism(self-preoccupation and lack of communication), Affect(blunted), Associations(loose)"
Whare are the characteristics of Dementia?
"development of mulitple cognitive deficits: memory, apahasia, apraxia, agnosia, loss of abstract thought, behavioral/personality changes, impaired judgement"
Whare are the signs of Benzodiazepine intox?
"Amnesia, ataxia, somnolence, minor resp depression"
Whare are the signs of caffeine intox?
"restlessness, insomina, increased diuresis, muscle twitching, cardiac arrhythmias"
Whare are the signs of Marijuana intox?
"Euphoria, anxiety, paranoid delusions, perception of slowed time, impaired jugdment, social withdrawl, increased appetite, dry mouth and hallucinations"
Whare are the signs of PCP intoxication?
"Belligerence, impulsiveness, fever, psychomotor agitation, vertical and horizontal nystagmus, tachycardia, ataxia, homicidality, psychosis and delirium"
What are 2 opioid comptetitive inhibitors?
Naloxane and Naltrexone
What are some common causes of delirium?
substance use/abuse or medical illness
What are some related diagnoses of Heroin addicts?
"Hepatitis, abscesses, OD, hemorrhoids(reason enough to shy away), AIDS, and right-sided endocarditis"
What are the 5 characteristics of panic?
"Palipitations, Abdominal distress, Nausea, Increased perspiration, Chest pains, chills and choking"
What are the 6 somatoform disorders?
"conversion, somatoform pain disorder, hypochondriasis, somatization disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, pseudocyesis"
What are the characteristics of Delirium?
"Decreased attention span and level of arousal, disorganized thinking, hallucinations, illusions, misperceptions, disturbance of sleep-wake cycle, cognitive dysfxn"
What are the etiologic factors for schizophrenia?
"genetics and environment, genetics outweigh env"
What are the maladaptive signs of substance use?
"Tolerance, Withdrawl, Substance taken in larger amounts than intended, Persistent desire or attempst to cut down, lots of energy spent trying to obtain substance, withdrawl from responsibility, used continued in spite of knowing the problems that it cause"
What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
"flat affect, social withdrawl, thought blocking, lack of emotion"
What are the Positive symptoms of Schizophrenia?
"Hallucinations, delusions, strange behavior and loose associations"
What are the signs of alcohol use?
"Disinhibition, emotional lability, slurred speech, ataxia, coma, blackouts"
What are the signs of alcohole withdrawl?
"Tremor, Tachycardia, HTN, malaise, nausea, seizures, delirium tremens, tremulousness, agitation, hallucinations"
What are the signs of Amphetamine intoxication?
"Psychomotor agitation, impaired judgement, pupillary dilation, HTN, tachycardia, euphoria, prolonged wakefulness and attention, cardiac arrhythmias, delusions, hallucinations, fever"
What are the signs of Amphetamine withdrawl?
"Post-use crash, including anxiety, lethargy, headache, stomach cramps, hunger, severe depression, dysphoric mood, fatigue, insomnia/hypersomnia"
What are the signs of Barbiutate intox?
respiratory depression
What are the signs of benzo withdrawl?
"Rebound anxiety, seizures, tremor, insomnia"
What are the signs of caffeine withdrawl?
"Headache, lethargy, depression, weight gain"
What are the signs of cocaine intoxication?
"Euphoria, psychomotor agitation, impaired judgment, tachycardia, pupillary dilation, HTN, hallucinations(including tactile:bugs on skin), paranoid ideations, angina, and sudden cardiac death"
What are the signs of cocaine withdrawl?
"Hypersomnolence, fatigue, depression, malaise, severe craving, suicidality"
What are the signs of LSD intoxication?
"Marked anxiety and depression, delusions, visual hallucinations and flashbacks"
What are the signs of narcotic abstinence syndrome?
"dilated pupils, lacrimation, rhinorrhea, sweating, yawning, irritability, and muscle aches"
What are the signs of opioid intoxication?
"CNS depression, nausea and vomiting, constipation, pupillary constriction, seizures"
What are the signs of opioid withdrawl?
"Anxiety, insomnia, anorexia, sweating/piloerection(cold turkey), fever, rhinorrhea, nausea, stomach cramps, diarrhea, flu-like symptoms, yawning"
What are the signs of PCP withdrawl?
"Recurrence of intoxication symptoms due to reabsorption in GI tract, sudden onset of severe, random, homicidal violence"
What are the symptoms of DT's(in order of appearance)?
"ANS Hyperactivity(tachycardia, tremors, and anxiety), Psychotic symptoms(hallucinations, delusions), confusion"
What are the symptoms of nicotine intoxication?
"Restlessness, insomnia, anxiety, arrhythmias"
What are the types of Cluster A personalities?
"Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal"
What are the types of Cluster C personalities?
"Avoidant, Obsessive-Compulsive, Dependent"
What are treatment options of phobias?
systematic desensitization
What can be confused with dementia in elderly?
Depression
What complication result from ECT?
complications associated with anesthesia and retrograde amnesia
What does exposure to object of phobia evoke?
an anxiety response
What drug is used for long term maintenance of heroin detox?
Methadone
What else is classically associated with Korsakoff's?
"Confabulations, ie. Making it up as you go along"
What is a hallmark sign of heroin addiction?
track marks
What is a Hypomanic Episode?
it is like a manic episode except mood disturbance is not severe enough to cause marked impairment in social and/or occupational functioning or to necessitate hospitalization; no psychotic features
What is a pain somatoform disorder?
pain that is not explained completely by illness
What is a phobia?
"fear that is excessive or unreasonable, cued by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or entity"
What is a schizoaffective disorder?
a combo of schizophrenia and a mood disorder
What is a somatization disorder?
Varitey of complaints in multiple organ systems
What is Cyclothymic disorder?
milder form of bipolar lasting at least 2 years
What is dementia characterized by?
commonly irreversible memory loss
What is destroyed in Korsakoff's Amnesia?
Mamillary bodies(bilaterally)
What is drug of choice for bipolar?
Lithium
What is Dysthymia?
milder form of depression lasting at least 2 years
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy(ECT)?
a tx option for major depressive disorder refractory to other tx. It is painless and produces a seizure with transient memory loss and disorientation.
What is Hypochondriasis?
"misinterpretation of normal physical findins, leading to preoccupation with and fear of having a serious medical illness in spite of medical reassurance"
What is it called when a parent causes their child to become ill in order to receive attention?
Munchausen's by proxy
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
when a person experienced or witnessed an event that involoved actual or threatened death or serious injury. The traumatic event is reexperienced; person persistently avoids stimuli associated with the trauma and experiences persistent symptoms of increase
What is primary gain?
what the symptom does for the patient's internal psychic economy
What is retrograde amnesia a complication of?
ECT-electroconvulsive therapy(shock)
What is secondary gain?
What the symptoms gets the patient(sympathy or attention)
What is tertiary gain?
what the caretaker gets
What is the criterion for dx of substance abuse?
"One or more of the following in 1 year: Recurrent use resulting in failure to complete responsiblities, recurrent use in physically hazardous situations, recurrent legal problems, continued use in spite of persistent problems of use"
What is the definition of substance abuse?
"maladaptive pattern of use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, symptoms have not met criteria for dependence"
What is the difference between delusions and loos associations?
delusion is a disorder in the content of thought(the actual idea) where a loose association is a disorder in the form of thought(the way the idea is tied together)
what is the fear of heights?
Acrophobia
what is the fear of marriage?
Gamophobia
what is the fear of open places?
Agoraphobia
what is the fear of pain?
Algophobia
What is the Fifth A?
Auditory hallucinations
What is the inability to remember things that happened before CNS insult?
Retrograde Amnesia
What is the key to delirium diagnosis?
Waxing and waning level of conciousness that develops rapidly
What is the key to dementia diagnosis?
"rule out delirium-patient is alert, no change in level of conciousness. More often gradual onset. "
What is the lifetime prevalence for Major Depressive Disorder in Males and Females:
"13% for males, and 21% for females"
What is the lifetime prevalence for schizophrenia?
"1.5%-(males/females, blacks/whites) presents earlier in men"
What is the most common psych illness on medical and surgical floors?
"Delirium, often reversible"
What is the order of loss or orientation?
"Time, place, and Person"
What is the response to the traumatic event?
"intense fear, helplessness or horror"
What is the trigger for DT's?
alcohols withdrawl
What patient population will you see Korsakoff's?
Alcoholics
What questions do you have to answer when assessing an patient's orientation?
Is the patient aware of him/herself as a person? Does the patient know his/her name?
What syndrome is manifested by a chronic history of multiple hospital admissions and willingness to receive invasive procedures?
Munchausen's
Whate is body dysmorpic disorder?
patient is convinced that part of one's own anatomy is malformed
Whate is pseudocyesis?
false belief of being pregnant associated with objective signs of pregnancy
When are the halluinations common?
"Visual(acute organic brain syndrom), Auditory(Schizophrenia), Olfactory(aura of psychomotor epilepsy), Gustatory(rare), Tactile(DT's and Cocaine abusers), Hypnagogic(while going to sleep), Hypnopmpic(while waking from sleep)"
When do DT's peak?
2-5 days after last drink
When must a painc disorder be dx?
in the context of the occurrence
"Who are more likely to be antisocial, male or female?"
male
"Who are more likely to be borderline, male or female?"
female
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| frontal
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I just wanted to acknowlege this good but apparently neglected post I came by through a 'similar-topic' link in another forum.
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| reet
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THANKS FR POSTING HERE
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yup, there should have been more replies to it. though i dont feel its neglected post. anyways the post is just awesome. it is good post for 'wannabe addicts' atleast it will trigger an alarm, whoever wants to get into drugs
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