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Brudzinski's Sign in Meningitis

Severe neck stiffness causes the patient's knees and hips to flex when the
Severe neck ... stiffness causes ... knees and hips to flex ... clinical #video #physicalexam ... #neurology
Brudzinski's Sign in Meningitis

Severe neck stiffness causes the patient's knees and hips to flex when the
Severe neck ... stiffness causes ... knees and hips to flex ... clinical #video #physicalexam ... #neurology
Brudzinski's Sign in Meningitis

Forced flexion of the neck elicits a reflex flexion of the hips. It
Brudzinski's Sign in Meningitis ... flexion of the neck ... elicits a reflex ... #PhysicalExam # ... Clinical #Video #neurology
Pediatric Primitive Reflexes - Maneuver and Ages

Palmar Grasp Reflex
 - Place your fingers into the baby's
Palmar Grasp Reflex ... Rooting Reflex ... Asymmetric Tonic Neck ... Peds #Diagnosis #Neurology ... #PhysicalExam
Brudzinski's sign is a physically demonstrable symptom of meningitis. It is characterized by reflexive flexion of
demonstrable symptom of meningitis ... following passive neck ... clinical #video #neurology ... #meningitis #physicalexam
Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex (ATNR)

This primitive reflex found in newborn babies that normally vanishes around 4
Asymmetrical Tonic Neck ... Reflex (ATNR) ... Asymmetrical #Tonic #Neck ... #Reflex #PhysicalExam ... clinical #video #Neurology
Brudzinski’s Sign in Meningitis (first described in 19th century by Dr. Josef Brudzinski)

Brudzinski's sign is characterized
following passive neck ... Passive neck flexion ... causes spinal cord ... an involuntary reflex ... Clinical #Video #PhysicalExam
Diagnostic Testing for Meningitis
History:
 • Triad: Fever, neck stiffness, and altered mental status
 • Sens: 44%
Diagnostic Testing for Meningitis ... Sign • Passively flex ... flex • Sens: ... BostonChiefs #Meningitis ... diagnosis #testing #physicalexam
Nuchal Rigidity in Infantile Bacterial Meningitis

Flexion of the neck revealed nuchal rigidity. The patient was unable
Infantile Bacterial Meningitis ... Flexion of the neck ... the hypertonic neck ... #PhysicalExam # ... Peds #Pediatrics #neurology
Right Sided Heart Failure Mnemonic: "AW HEAD"
ANOREXIA & NAUSEA 

WEIGHT GAIN 

HEPATOMEGALY 

EDEMA (BIPEDAL) 

ASCITES 

DISTENDED
HEAD" ANOREXIA & NAUSEA ... WEIGHT GAIN ... ASCITES DISTENDED NECK ... #HeartFailure #Cardiology