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
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
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