The Brain
What is 3 pounds
What disease is caused by tissue loss and nerve cell death?
What is Alzheimer's disease.
What was considered the "dirtiest" place in the world?
What is London.
What is considered a normal blood pressure?
What is 120/80
The left side of your brain controls what side of your body?
What is the right side.
Abnormal clusters of protein fragments, built up between nerve cells.
What is plaque.
What was invented to help with pain control during surgery?
What is anesthesia.
What is the first number of the blood pressure reading called?
What is systolic.
What is the outer layer of the cerebrum called?
What is cortex.
Twisted strands of protein that in are dead or dying nerve cells?
What is tangles.
What did most medical student's die from?
What is small cuts that became infected.
Where is the brachial pulse?
What is the inner aspect of the elbow.
What carries blood to your brain?
What is arteries.
Does Alzheimer's progress in a predictable pattern?
What is yes.
An infection in the blood.
What is sepsis.
What is the real name of a blood pressure cuff?
What is a sphygmomanometer
What are the three parts of the brain?
What is the cerebrum, the cerebellum, and the brain stem.
What are two examples of mid to moderate Alzheimer's Disease?
What is develop problems with memory or thinking serious enough to interfere with work or social life, are confused and have trouble handling money, expressing themselves and organizing their thoughts.
What did Lister's sister die from?
What is liver cancer.
When do you record the systolic number when performing the two-step pulse?
What is when you no longer feel a radial pulse.