ABI
ABI is a abbreviated term. What is the correct terminology for ABI.
What is Acquired Brain Injury
This part of the brain coordinates voluntary movements such as posture, balance, coordination, and speech, resulting in smooth and balanced muscular activity.
What is cerebellum
The correct terminology for TBI
What is a traumatic brain injury
List 5 signs and symptoms of a head injury
What are drowsiness, nausea, vomiting, confusion, memory loss, blurred vision, syncope, headache, pupil changes, irritability and concussion
This neurological scale aims to give a reliable and objective way of recording the state of a person's consciousness for initial as well as subsequent assessment.
What is the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
ABI is considered damage to the brain before or after birth
What is after birth
This part of the brain controls important cognitive skills in humans, such as emotional expression, problem solving, memory, language, and judgment.
What is the Frontal Lobe
There are two types of head injury
What is a closed and open head injury
Symptoms usually occur immediately following a brain injury, causing loss of consciousness and bruising of the brain
What is Concussion
This disorder results from sudden bursts of electrical activity in the brain
What is seizure disorder
This term defines how a person understands the world and acts in it
What is cognition
This part of the brain functions in processing sensory information regarding the location of parts of the body as well as interpreting visual information and processing language and mathematics
What is the Parietal Lobe
A collection of blood that has pooled
What is a hematoma
This type of brain injury is a person who has had a traumatically induced physiological disruption of brain function;
loss of consciousness of approximately 30 minutes or less, after 30 minutes, an initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) of 13, posttraumatic amnesia (PTA) not greater than 24 hours
What is mild traumatic brain injury
This tool is used as a measurement of awareness, it has 8 levels of criteria
What is the Rancho Los Amigos Cognitive Scale
This term describes a set of mental abilities or processes that are part of nearly every human action while we are awake, brain-based skills we need to carry out any task from the simplest to the most complex
What is Cognitive Function
The visual processing center of the brain
What is the Occipital Lobe
These types of cells do not replace or repair themselves
What are damaged brain cells
The GCS score is between 9-12 and with a loss of consciousness and/or post-traumatic amnesia of greater than 30 minutes but less than 24 hours and/or a skull fracture
What is Moderate Brain Injury
In this state the onset is sudden, it is temporary and an acute state of mental confusion
What is Delerium
Thinking, perceiving, planning, and understanding language all lie within the cerebrum’s control
What is Behaviour Function
There are four lobes in the brain
What are the Frontal, Parietal, Occipital and Temporal lobes
The number one killer and disabler of young Canadians under the age of 40
What is Traumatic Brain Injury
A Glasgow Coma Scale score lower than 9 and accompanied by a loss of consciousness or post-traumatic amnesia lasting more than 24 hours, very life-threatening
What is a Severe head injury
This slow progressive loss of cognitive and social functions it interferes with routine personal, social, and occupational activities
What is Dementia