Brain Basics
Disorders of Consciousness
Predictors of Outcome
Complications
Management
100
The single most common cause of death and injury in automobile accidents.
What is ejection from the vehicle?
100
Loss of capacity to interact with the environment despite the preserved potential for spontaneous or stimultus induced arousal.
What is vegetative state?
100
This patient has a Glascow Coma Score of 4.
What is withdraws to painful stimulus?
100
Formation of mature lamellar bone in soft tissue.
What is heterotopic ossification?
100
Treatment of SIADH
What is fluid restriction?
200
Most common locations of brain contusions following TBI.
What is inferior frontal and anterior temporal lobes?
200
Posturing with extension of upper and lower extremities.
What is decerebrate posturing?
200
Standard technique for assessing post-traumatic amnesia?
What is the GOAT?
200
Greatest risk factor for late posttraumatic seizure
What is penetrating injury?
200
Treatment for cerebral salt wasting
What is fluids?
300
This brain injury is responsible for the initial loss of consciousness in TBI.
What is diffuse axonal injury?
300
Severely altered consciousness with minimal but definite behavioral evidence of self or environmental awareness.
What is minimally conscious state?
300
Of the three items in the Glascow Coma Score, this the the best predictor of outcome.
What is best motor response?
300
Cranial nerve most often damaged by blunt head trauma.
What is CNI?
300
Treatment for diabetes insipidus.
What is DDAVP?
400
The term describing that the brain has the capabilities to repair itself by means of morphologic and physiologic responses.
What is plasticity?
400
No sleep wake cycles on EEG.
What is coma?
400
Ordinal scale with 18 items and 7 levels to assess physical and cognitive function.
What is FIM scale?
400
Endocrine dysfunctino after fracture of the sella turcica?
What is diabetes insipidus?
400
Medication for agitation contraindicated in TBI
What is Haldol?
500
Posturing with the flexion of upper limbs and extension of lower limbs.
What is decorticate posturing?
500
Consciousness is mediated by these cell bodies in the brain stem.
What is the reticular activating system?
500
Most frequently used measure of general intellectual ability.
What is Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale?
500
Medication used in TBI for partial seizures which can cause SIADH?
What is carbamezipine?
500
These factors make up Virchow's triad.
What is stasis, vessel-wall damage and hypercoagulable state?
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