Signs/Symptoms
This is common after an ABI, and may present as restlessness or aggression.
What is agitation?
This assesses the nature and extent of agitation during the acute phase of recovery from acquired brain injury
What is the Agitated Behavior Scale?
This brain lobe is responsible for vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
This assessment is used to objectively describe the extent of impaired consciousness in all types of acute medical and trauma patients.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale?
A hematoma
A diffuse, closed brain injury
Your response to this medical status, resulting in dizziness, is to lay the patient down.
What is hypotension?
An assessment for detecting mild cognitive impairment or early signs of dementia; it examines various cognitive functions, including: short-term memory. working memory
What is the MOCA?
A measure of the ability of the eye to distinguish shapes and the details of objects at a given distance
What is visual acuity?
These injuries classically occur when the moving head (brain) strikes a stationary object; whereas, the other injury is associated with a moving object impacting a stationary object.
What is coup/contrecoup injury?
The part of the brain that processes your sense of touch and assembles input from your other senses into a form you can use; also helps you understand where you are in relation to other things that your senses are picking up around you.
What is the parietal lobe?
Lack of oxygen to the brain
What is hypoxia?
One of the most widely used assessments for functional independence.
What is the Barthel Index?
The total area in which objects can be seen in the side (peripheral) vision as you focus your eyes on a central point
What is visual field?
Someone at this Rancho score is confused, yet appropriate.
What is GCS 6?
An ABI classified by LOC <24 hours, GCS 10.
What is a moderate brain injury?
The resulting blood pressure status, following a TBI.
What is hypotension?
An assessment, typically performed by PTs, to objectively determine a patient's ability (or inability) to safely balance during a series of predetermined tasks
What is the Berg Balance Scale?
A hierarchical model for evaluation and treatment of visual perceptual dysfunction in adult acquired brain injury
What is Mary Warren's Hierarchy?
The Glasgow score for someone who cannot blink or open their eyes.
What is a GCS 4?
A gun shot wound to the head, with exit wound
What is an open perforated injury?
This visual impairment following an ABI will make it difficult to read.
What are saccades?
This is a measure of tone, following a neurological insult/injury.
What is the Modified Ashworth Scale?
These rapid, conjugate, eye movements shift the center of gaze from one part of the visual field to another
What are saccades?
This score requires at least minimal supervision for new learning.
What is Ranchos 7?
An ABI resulting from >36 hours of unconsciousness.
What is a severe brain injury?