Head Injury
The moment of impact or injury in a head injury
What is primary injury?
Calculate the CPP:
MAP=65
ICP=5
What is 60?
For spinal cord injury involving C3-C4, the nurse should anticipate interventions that surround managing this system
What is the respiratory system?
Gold standard for diagnosing CVA
What is MRI?
Patients presenting with aneurysm are at highest right for this type of stroke
What is hemorrhagic stroke?
Common sign for a basilar skull fracture
What is racoon eyes?
Common medication used to decrease ICP
What is Mannitol?
Worst headache, increased blood pressure, and facial flushing in someone who is wheelchair-bound after a spinal cord injury are indicative of this
What is autonomic dysreflexia?
Most common type of stroke
The size and location of aneurysms are important, the largest is typically this size
What is greater than 25mm?
Yellowish ring found around a droplet of blood
What is Halo sign?
Nursing intervention known to increase ICP
What is suctioning?
Decreased blood pressure, decreased pulse, and warm flushed skin can indicate this
Sudden loss of functioning and disruption of blood flow
What is brain attack or stroke?
At times, blood vessels grow around the site of the aneurysm, this type of growth is known as
What is collateral blood flow?
What is cerebral edema
Common goal after administering Mannitol
What is fluid balance?
Priority nursing intervention for a T10 spinal cord injury
What is the insertion of an NG tube?
Stroke symptoms are present, however, resolve in less than 24 hours
What is a transient ischemic attack (TIA)?
Blood vessels that shunt blood to the site of an AVM are called this common name
What is feeders?
Standard scale used to assess LOC
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale?
Increased pulse pressure, decreased heart rate, and irregular respiratory pattern
What is Cushings Triad?
This type of medication is given after spinal cord injury to decrease the swelling
What are steriods?
Surgical procedure that removes plaque from the carotid arteries in an effort to restore cerebral blood flow
What is a carotid endarterectomy?
This diagnostic test is used to determine where bleeding is occurring
What is a CT scan?