GCS
E
What is eye opening?
Brain part that regulates balance and coordination
What is the cerebellum?
The cranial nerve responsible for our sense of smell
What is CN #1?
A weakening or bulge in an arterial wall
What is an aneurysm?
5-15 mmHG
What is normal ICP?
Highest score
What is 15?
Connects the right and left hemispheres
What is the corpus callosum?
The cranial nerve responsible for trigeminal neuralgia
What is CN 5 (trigeminal)?
Dysarthria
What is deficits in articulation?
Early sign of increasing ICP
What is LOC changes?
Best score for motor response
What is 6?
Then meninges layer closest to the brain tissue
What is the Pia matter?
The longest cranial nerve
What is CN X (Vagus)?
The inability to perform previously learned purposeful motor acts on a voluntary basis
What is apraxia?
160/80, 52, 9
What is Cushing's Triad?
Score for moderate brain injury
What is 9-12?
Part of the brain that relays sensory impulses from the spinal cord to the cerebral cortex
What is the thalamus?
Ask the patient to sick out their tongue to check for midline protusion
What is CN XII (hypoglossal) function?
The inability to recognize objects through a particular sensory system
What is agnosia?
Critically high ICP
What is greater than 20 mmHg?
opens eye to speech
is oriented
localizes pain
What is 13?
An injury to the spinal cord at what level will cause quadriplegia and require ventilatory assistance
What is C1-C4?
Pupil constricts when focus shifts from far to near
What is normal accommodation?
Hemianopsia
What is blindness in half of the field of vision in one or both eyes
Ways to decrease ICP
What is HOB 30-45 degrees, body alignment, oxygenation, temperature, hypertonic fluid, diuretic?