Assessment
Screening test for meningitis that the head is lifted.
What is a Brudzinski Sign?
Test for upward eye movement, inspect for conjugate movements and nystagmus.
What is assessment of CN IV (trochlear)?
Controls fine movement, balance, and position sense or proprioception.
What is the cerebellum?
Happens to cerebral perfusion flow when intracranial pressure is increased.
What is a decrease?
A form of dementia that boxers, football players, and armed force members are at risk for.
What is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) sign?
A flat electroencephalogram is an indicator.
What is a test confirming brain death?
Consists of the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata.
What is the brain stem?
The earliest sign of increased intracranial pressure is change in LOC. These are the other early indicators of increasing ICP.
What is agitation, slowing of speech, and delay in response to verbal suggestions.
Measured by the length of time a patient was unconscious, coupled with the GCS.
How the severity of a traumatic brain injury is determined?
Positive for glucose, a medical emergency.
Leaking CSF, a Halo Sign.
Stress, Anxiety, Fatigue, Infection, Hypoxia, & Brain Trauma.
What are common seizure triggers?
Caused by diminished cerebral blood flow this sympathetic response causes increase in systolic pressure with widening of the pulse pressure and cardiac slowing.
What is Cushing's response or Cushing's reflex?
A patient with a brain trauma should be presumed to have this until proven otherwise.
What is a cervical spine injury?
Setting sun sign is a clinical manifestation of this.
What is hydrocephalus?
Caused by abnormal electrical discharges that originate from both hemispheres of the brain.
What are generalized seizures?
1) Decreasing cerebral edema 2) Lowering volume of CSF 3) Decreasing cerebral blood volume while maintaining cerebral perfusion.
What are the management goals to relieve ICP?
The absences of brain stem reflexes, coma, apnea.
What is the three cardinal signs of brain death?
Most sensitive indicator of a lapse in neurologic functioning in patients with TBI and is often the earliest sign of acute change in ICP.
What is the Glascow Coma Scale?
The most common cause pathogen of bacterial meningitis.
What is streptococcus pneumoniae?
An expected or most common implanted device for someone with hydrocephalus.
What is Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt (VP shunt)
Patient with a brain injury develops a rapid increase in body temperature.
What is possible brain stem damage?