
Geriatrics L4-5
Quiz by Seleste Parma
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There is no change in homeostasis as the individual ages.
Which of the following are inappropriately prescribed despite the risks of delirium, falls, and hip fractures?
Patients at risk for HAPU should have their skin inspected at least __ focusing on areas of bony prominences.
How often should patients be turned or moved?
Which of the following is a type of precipice for elderly individuals?
What is something that occurs in 1/3 of patients who are hospitalized?
The — is a useful screening tool for delirium.
CMS mandated —- for hospital acquired never events.
A patient may be agitated, disoriented, delusions, and experiencing hallucinations. This type of delirium is associated with alcohol/drug withdrawal, drug intoxication, or adverse effects of meds. What type of delirium do they have?
A patient may be subdued, quietly confused, disoriented and apathetic with psychomotor retardation, lethargy, sedation, and reduced awareness of surroundings. This type of delirium is associated with hypoxia, metabolic disturbances, and anticholinergics. What type of delirium do they have?
Attention is severely impaired in
Which injury has a high risk of developing delirium?
Which of the following has a high risk of developing delirium?
Which of the following is defined as a deterioration in mental state and must represent a decline in previous level of function and must be severe enough to interfere with daily functio?
Which of the following is an intermediate state between normal cognition and dementia?
Which of the following are potentially reversible metabolic causes of dementia?
Which of the following are potentially reversible structural causes of dementia?
Which of the following are potentially treatable infectious causes of dementia?
Where does AD typically start?
Which disease predisposes people to AD and leads to AD occurring 10-20 years earlier than the general population?
What is the most common small vessel disease causing vascular dementia?
Vascular dementia has a ___ cognitive decline with or without the diagnosis of a stroke.
A patient presents with cognitive fluctuations, visual hallucinations, REM sleep behavior disorder, and parkinsonism. What type of dementia do they have?
People with LBD have sensitivity toÂ
A patient must have three of which of the following criteria to have behavioral variant FTD?
Which of the following presents with caudate nucleus atrophy?
Which of the following presents with the classic triad of gait disturbance/instability, urinary incontinence, and dementia?
Which of the following presents with supranuclear ophthalmoparesis or ophthalmoplegia?
Which of the following tests visuospatial abilities, executive function, attention, language comprehension and numerical knowledge?
Which of the following tests involves free recall of 3 unrelated words and a version of the clock-drawing test?
Which of the following has items that assess delayed word recall, visuospatial function, language attention/concentration, and orientation?
Which of the following has questions that assess orientation, calculation, semantic verbal fluency, word and story recall, reverse digit span, clock-drawing, and visuospatial function?
Which of the following are non-modifiable risk factors for dementia?
Which of the following have an insidious onset?
Which of the following has fluctuation in symptoms and is often worse at night?
Which of the following has reduced awareness?
Which of the following has stable symptoms and clear awareness?
Which of the following treatments of AD is also available in transdermal formulation which has less GI side effects?
Which of the following treatments of AD is a partial NMDA antagonist and is approved for moderate to severe AD?
Which of the following can cause ARIA which can take the form of cerebral edema and/or microhemorrhage?
Which of the following is treated by treating the HTN goal, diabetes control, and statins?
Which of the following is treated with cholinesterase inhibitors, maybe memantine, and melatonin or clonazepam for REM sleep behavior disorder?
Which of the following is treated with SSRIs but go low and slow?
What are the most common principal diagnoses in hospitalized older adults?
Which of the following are risk factors for HAD?
When should delirium be considered?
Which of the following is a useful tool for screening for delirium?
Which of the following are approaches to deprescribing?
Which of the following are never events?
What areas should be inspected daily for HAPU?
Which of the following are indications for bladder catheter?
Match the problems and their interventions.
Match the problem and possible interventions.
Which of the following allows for patients with advanced illness to have their wishes for care translated by a health care provider into actionable medical orders?
Which of the following are essential elements of a discussion about code?
Which systematic approach is for older pt that stabilized during acute hospitalization and integrates comprehensive geriatric assessment with interprofessional team-based care?
Which systematic approach is for acutely ill older patients to achieve or maintain independence in ADLs and IADLs? It has 4 components: environment, interprofessional, early social work intervention, and medication review.
Which systematic approach is to prevent delirium by managing 6 risk factors?
What are the 6 risk factors managed by the HELP approach?
Which of the following are not recommended based on the GR59 Hospital Care campaign?
Which of the following is associated with late onset AD?
How can the incidence of delirium be reduced?
Which of the following are considered never events?
What are indications of urinary catheters?