ICP & LOC
Infection of the meninges, also a complication that can occur with intraventricular catheter in place to measure ICP.
What is meningitis?
A chronic recurring abnormal brain electrical activity resulting in two or more seizures.
What is epilepsy?
A term that means headache.
What is cephalgia?
A warning of an impending stroke.
What is an ischemic transient attack (TIA)?
The part of the brain that is responsible for memory, speech and understanding of language?
What is temporal lobe?
The first sign of increased ICP?
What is change in level of consciousness?
A seizure that manifests with impaired consciousness/awareness and automatisms (i.e. smacking of lips).
What is a complex partial seizure?
Headache that affect one side of the face and area associated with noise or light sensitivity and may last for days.
What is a migraine headache?
Inability to perform a previously learned purposeful motor act?
What is apraxia?
An abnormal accumulation of water or fluid in the brain (intracellular or extracellular or both)
What is cerebral edema?
Awakens to vigorous shake or painful stimuli but returns to unresponsive sleep.
What is stuporous?
Seizure that involves both hemispheres of brain and manifest as staring into space with subtle body movements.
What is non-motor (absence seizures)generalized seizures?
Type of headache that occurs after an Upper respiratory infection.
What is a sinus headache?
Unaware of persons or objects on side of visual loss; neglect of one side of body.
What is Homonymous Hemianopsia?
A state of consciousness in which the person is unresponsive to all stimuli and the eyes remain closed.
What is comatose?
Interventions that promote cerebral tissue perfusion.
What is Proper positioning, elevating HOB 30 degrees; avoiding extreme rotation and flexion of neck, avoiding hip flexion and monitoring ICP?
Most dramatic type of seizure with body stiffening and shaking and incontinence.
What is tonic-clonic seizure?
Patient education for managing migraines.
What is identify triggers, promote stress reduction techniques,
encouragement healthy lifestyle and health promotion activities and providing comfort measures: quiet, dark room?
A systematic assessment tool that provides a quantitative measure of stroke-related neurologic deficit.
What is "The National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS)?
A pathological state that disrupts intracranial regulation and functioning.
What is Brain tumors, Degenerative diseases and Inflammatory Conditions?
Severe headache, deteriorating level of consciousness, restlessness, irritability, dilated pupils, deterioration in motor functioning and abnormal posturing (decebreate, decorticate,flaccidity)
What are manifestations of increased intracranial pressure?
Primary goal for nursing management of a client having a seizure.
What is to prevent patient from injury?
Light sensitivity that may be associated with a migraine headache.
What is photophobia?
A genetically engineered medication that breaks up clots, mimicking a substance made naturally by the body.
What is tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA)?
The three "categories" of intracranial regulation dysfunction.
What are perfusion, neurotransmission and pathology?