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?
Problem with nerve conduction due to demyelination and scarring
What is multiple sclerosis
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
This diagnostic test is used to determine where bleeding is occurring
What is a CT scan?
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
paralysis of one side of the body, or part of it, due to an injury in the motor area of the brain
What is hemiplegia?
Patients presenting with aneurysm are at highest right for this type of stroke
What is hemorrhagic stroke?
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 but resolve in less than 24 hours
What is a transient ischemic attack (TIA)?
Disease in which nerve cells die or become impaired and lose the ability to produce dopamine.
What is Parkinson's disease?
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?
Acute, severe muscle weakness (crisis), drooping eyelids, blurred vision and difficulty swallowing that is triggered by too little acetylcholine
What is a myasthenic crisis?