SCI
Emergency situation with noxious stimuli leading to elevate BP, headache, goosebumps, redness above level of injury.
What is Autonomic Dysreflexia?
This environment is best for reducing escalating behaviors in the TBI Population.
What is Low-Stim environment?
The IRF-PAI needs to be completed within this time frame of the Rehab Admission.
What is within 3 days after admission and 3 days prior to discharge?
This type of stroke is caused by a blocked artery.
What is an ischemic stroke?
This is a common contributor to CAUTIs caused by poor positioning of foley tubing.
What is a dependent loop?
Patient with a SCI require this to manage there neurogenic bowel.
What is a bowel program?
This is a clinical scale used to rate how people with brain injury are recovering.
What is Rancho Los Amigos Levels of Cognitive Functioning Scale (RLA Scale)?
This is the number of days written on the glucometer strips container when it is opened.
What is 180 days?
Patient with a stroke in this side of the brain are typically more implusive.
What is the Right Side?
This is the minimum number of therapy hours per day required for a patient to qualify for acute inpatient rehab.
What is 3 hours per day?
The SCI population is at an increased risk of this due to impaired mobility and sensation.
What is a pressure injury?
When escalating patient behavior occurs, you call this?
What is a Code 8?
This agency surveys medical facilities to improve safety and quality of care.
What is the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)?
This type of stroke occurs when a blood vessel ruptures.
What is a hemorrhagic stroke?
This type of wrapping technique is used to dress a residual limb following an amputation.
What is a Figure 8 Dressing?
This assessment scale is used to classify the severity of spinal cord injury.
What is the ASIA (American Spinal Injury Association) Impairment Scale?
A patient who had difficulty verbalizing following a stroke has this?
What is Expressive Aphasia?
What does the acronym IRF‑PAI stand for in inpatient rehabilitation documentation?
What is Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility–Patient Assessment Instrument?
BEFAST stands for Balance, Eyes, Face, Arms, Speech, and this final action.
What is Time?
This syndrome with ascending paralysis occurs when the immune system attacks the peripheral nervous system.
What is Guillain‑Barré Syndrome?
This SCI affects the upper extremities and not the lower extremities.
What is Central Cord Syndrome?
This Rancho Los Amigos level is characterized by agitation, poor impulse control, and inappropriate behavior despite improved alertness.
What is Level IV – Confused/Agitated?
The governing body that determines the Rehab Unit's reimbursement for care provided.
What is the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)?
This symptom can mimic a stroke.
What is hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia?
This term describes the brain’s ability to reorganize and form new neural pathways during rehab.
What is neuroplasticity?