The Neurological Exam Part 1
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
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🗓️ 16 August 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
You'll need to do a good neurological exam and make sure there aren't any deficits.
Are there any focal neuro findings?
Who's heard these things before? Who's asked themselves these things before?
There are a ton of indications to do a complete neurological exam on a patient. Perhaps they are altered, have a headache, or have a head/spine injury?
Let's be honest here, sometimes the neuro exam can be a little tedious and daunting for both students and clinicians alike.
But, it doesn't need to be that way. Today on the Medgeeks podcast, we'll be talking about the neuro exam.
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| 0:00.0 | You'll need to do a good neuro exam. |
| 0:02.6 | Make sure there's no neurologic deficit. |
| 0:05.3 | Are there any focal neurofindings? |
| 0:08.2 | Who's heard these things before? |
| 0:09.6 | Who's asked themselves these things before? |
| 0:12.3 | There are a ton of indications to do a complete |
| 0:14.8 | neurologic exam on a patient. Maybe they've got a headache, maybe they're |
| 0:18.6 | altered, maybe they had a head or a spine injury, maybe they just seem a little |
| 0:22.4 | weird to you. Let's be honest, a complete |
| 0:24.9 | neuro exam can sometimes be a little tedious, can be a little daunting, and this goes for students |
| 0:29.9 | and clinicians alike. But it doesn't need to be that way. |
| 0:33.1 | Today on the med geeks podcast, |
| 0:34.5 | we're going to talk about the neuro exam. Hello and today on this is Eric with med geeks and today on the |
| 0:53.8 | podcast as I mentioned we're going over the neuro exam so the neuro exam is a bit |
| 0:59.4 | more involved and takes a little bit longer to do than other exams, such as an |
| 1:04.4 | abdominal exam or oscultating the lungs and often interpreting the abnormal |
| 1:09.0 | findings from a neuro exam can be kind of complicated and burdensome in their own right. Therefore, I'd like to discuss the |
| 1:15.4 | components of a neuro exam, shed some light on common areas where everyone gets a little |
| 1:20.0 | tripped up, including myself, and hopefully it can be a little bit more straightforward the next time you perform one. I like to |
| 1:26.0 | break a neuro exam down into four parts. Number one is cranial nerves. Number |
| 1:30.8 | two is motor, three is reflexes, and four is sensory. I've decided to break |
| 1:37.2 | this up into two episodes so this week we're going to be talking about the first |
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