Symptoms
Treatment
General
100
Akinesia (loss voluntary movement) hyporeflexia,/hyperreflexia
What is motor function?
100
Aspirin Ticlid (ticlopidine) Plavix (clopidogrel) Persantine (dipyridamole) warfarin CEA Transluminal angioplasty
What is prevention?
100
Age, race (African American), heredity, gender CAD-atrial fib DB HTN Obesity Oral contraception use Alcohol use Hyperlipidemia Hypercoagulability Smoking Sickle cell
What is risk factors?
200
Aphasia (total loss comprehension language) Dysphasia (difficulty related to comprehension of language) Receptive aphasia (cannot understand meaning of word) Expressive aphasia (understands what is being said but unable to communicate)
What is communication?
200
Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) Fibrinolysis of clots Given within 3 hours stroke Must have CT or MRI to r/o bleeding before tPA can be given
What is acute treatment?
200
Atherosclerosis TIA: transient ischemia attack Thrombotic stroke Embolic stroke Hemorrhagic stroke
What is pathophysiology?
300
Homonymous hemianopsia (blindness on same half of visual field of both eyes) Agnosia (inability to use an object correctly) Apraxia ( inability to carry out learned movements on command) Neglect syndrome (unilateral neglect)-client unaware of existence of paralyzed side
What is spatial-perceptual alterations?
300
Elevated BP, bradycardia Headache, n/v Facial drooping Nuchal rigidity Visual changes Ataxia Dysarthria, dysphagia Speech changes Paralysis
What is general symptoms?
400
Paralyzed L side (hemiplegia) Left-sided neglect Spatial-perceptual deficits Rapid performance, short attention span Impulsive Impaired judgment, time concepts
What is right-sided damage?
500
Paralyzed R side Impaired speech/language (aphasias) Impaired right/left discrimination Slow performance Aware deficits; depression, anxiety Impaired comprehension to language/math
What is left-sided damage?
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