Neuro
A type of stroke that occurs as a result of bleeding inside the brain.
What is a hemorrhagic stroke?
Asystole
What is the complete absence of all electrical activity?
Five S's, LOC, ABC
Scene safety, Standard Precautions, Scene Size-Up, Situation, Spinal Motion Restriction
Level of Consciousness
Airway, Breathing, Circulation
This is an obvious sign of death.
What is rigor mortis/dependent lividity/putrefaction/injury inconsistent with life (decapitation, dismemberment, burns beyond recognition)
The primary drive to breathe is a reaction to ________________________ levels in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid.
What is carbon dioxide?
A condition in which seizures occur every few minutes or last longer than thirty minutes.
What is status epilepticus?
Low blood flow to the heart caused by occlusion of an artery.
What is Acute Myocardial Infarction?
The Cinncinati Stroke Scale has 3 parts.
What is Speech, Facial Droop, and Arm Drift?
The AED delivers shocks to two rhythms.
What are pulseless ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation?
There are three major parts of the brain.
What are the cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem?
Weakness on one side of the body.
What is hemiparesis?
Damage to the ventricular heart muscle/valve causing blood flow to back up.
What is Congestive Heart Failure?
The FAST Stroke Assessment Tool has four parts.
What is Face, Arm Drift, Speech, and Time?
ROSC
What is Return of Spontaneous Circulation?
An aneurysm is _______________________.
A swelling or enlargement of the wall of an artery resulting from a defect or weakening of the arterial wall.
Stroke symptoms resolve within twenty-four hours.
What is a transient ischemic attack (but remember that a TIA generally is a precursor of a stroke)
A shockable dysrhythmia.
What is ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia?
A patient may be unable to produce or understand appropriate speech.
What is aphasia?
Your neonatal patient is unresponsive, has labored breathing, and a weak palpable brachial pulse rate of 54. You should ___________________.
Initiate CPR, beginning with chest compressions.
An advanced airway is in place in a resuscitation attempt. Your rate of ventilation is __________.
One breath every five to six seconds.
AEIOU-TIPS
What is: Alcohol, Epilepsy/Endocrine/Electrolytes, Insulin, Opiates, Uremia, Trauma/Temperature, Infection, Poisoning/Psychogenic, Shock, Stroke, Seizure, Syncope, Space-Occupying Lesion, Subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Explain the progression of blood through the heart.
The superior and inferior vena cava receive oxygen-poor blood, which enters the right atrium and fills the left ventricle. The right ventricle contracts, blood flows into the pulmonary artery and through the pulmonary circulatory system. The now oxygen-rich blood returns to the heart through the pulmonary vein. Blood enters the left atrium and passes through the left ventricle and into the aorta.
The patient opens their eyes in response to pain, cannot use speech appropriately, and localizes pain. These are all parts of ____________________.
Your patient is speaking to you in full sentences, has good skin color, temperature, color, and condition, and is breathing adequately. However, you are unable to palpate a pulse or auscultate a blood pressure.
BEGIN CPR!
Just kidding, your patient has an LVAD.
CPAP may result in a decrease in blood pressure.
Positive-pressure ventilation delivered too quickly or with too much force may increase intrathoracic pressure and compress the venae cavae and impair blood return to the right atrium.