Temporary blockage of circulation to part of the brain
What is TIA (transient ischemic attack)?
200
Results in Fruity, sweet acetone breath
What is DKA (Diabetic Ketonacidosis)?
200
Assessment includes testing speech, facial muscles, holding arms out.
What is Cincinnati Prehospital Stroke Scale?
200
Stage of seizure where patient can be unresponsive to increasing level of consciousness as time goes by
What is postictal stage?
200
The part of the body helps with balance
What is inner ear?
200
Term to describe one sided weakness
What is Hemiparesis?
300
Slow onset
What is Hyperglycemia?
300
What is the most important treatment for a stroke patient?
What is Oxygen?
300
Stage of seizure where there is muscle jerking over all the body
What is Clonic?
300
Feels like the room is spinning
What is vertigo?
300
the best known condition that results in seizures
What is Epilepsy?
400
Where insulin is produced
What is Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas?
400
One of the most important questions to ask a person displaying sypmtoms of a stroke
What is "When did your symptoms start?"
400
Seizures affecting one side of the body
What is partial?
400
Can lead to a patient becoming so anxious in which the patient hyperventilates and causes them to breath faster and deeper. This can cause a patient to pass out.
What is a Panic/anxiety attack?
400
Term meaning spontaneously, with an unknown cause
What is idiopathic?
500
Increases movement of sugar from the bloodstream to the cell
What is Insulin?
500
Most common sign of a stroke
What is weakness or paralysis on one side of the body?
500
Two or more seizures with tonic-cloinc acitivty without an intervening period of consciousness
What is Status Epilepticus?
500
Stimilation to this nerve can slow vital signs down, causing dizziness, syncope or even death (in older population)
What is vagus nerve?
500
Most common cause of seizure in infants and children 6 months to 3 years of age