Nervous System
the two cells that make up the nervous system?
What are Neurons and Glial cells
Cerebrospinal fluid, Intravascular fluid, and Brain tissue
What are the components of the brain?
A burst blood vessel may allow blood to seep into and damage brain tissue until clotting shuts off the leak
What is a Hemorrhagic stroke?
A recurring headache characterized by unilateral (sometimes bilateral) throbbing pain, a triggering event or factor, strong family history, and manifestations associated with neurologic and autonomic nervous system dysfunction
What is a Migraine Headache?
Plegia of both legs
What is paraplegia?
Acetycholine, Amines, Amino Acids and Neuro peptides
What are examples of neurotransmitters?
The automatic adjustment in the diameter of the cerebral blood vessels by the brain to maintain a constant blood flow during changes in arterial blood changes.
What is autoregulation?
Bleeding within the brain caused by the rupture of a vessel and accounts for about 10% of all strokes
What is an intracerebral hemorrhage?
Common therapy of treatment for migraine headaches.
What is a Sumatriptan
plegia of one arm or leg
What is monoplegia
This test is used to identify cerebral diseases like: seizure disorder, cerebrovascular lesions, and brain injury.
What is an electroencephalography (EEG)?
Treatment of choice for individuals with A-fib who have had a TIA
What is Coumadin (Warfarin)?
Ineffective breathing pattern related to neuromuscular impairment
What is a seizure disorder or epilepsy?
Manifestations of this disorder include HTN, throbbing headache,marked diaphoresis above the lesion, bradycardia, piloerection, flushing of the skin, blurred vision, nasal congestion,anxiety and nausea
What is Autonomic Dysreflexia
Stimulation of this system activates the "fight or flight" response
What is Sympathetic Nervous System?
This interdisciplinary team member can assist you with a swallow evaluation of your stroke patient
What is Speech Therapist?
Maintain patient airway, protect the patient's head, turn patient head to the side, do not restrain the patient, do not place ANY objects in the patient's mouth
What are nursing interventions for a patient with a seizure?
Elevate patient head of bead 45 degrees or sit up right, notify the physician, and assess patient, and remove noxious stimuli ( fecal impaction, kinked urinary catheter, tight clothing)
What is Nursing interventions for Autonomic Dysreflexia?
Intact facial sensation to light touch and pinprick and Smooth performance of finger-nose movements These assessment findings are normal for which part of the nervous system.
What is the cranial nerves and motor system?
Brain abcesses, meningitis and encephilitis are what type of condition of the brain and this type of condition is caused by what
What is Inflammatory? and Bacteria,Viruses,Fungi and Chemicals
This is a type of fluent aphasia. Damage occurs in left temporal lobe. Patient may speak in long sentences that have no meaning, and difficult to follow what the person is trying to say
What is Wernicke's Aphasia
a chronic, typically progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, whose symptoms may include numbness, impairment of speech and of muscular coordination, blurred vision, and severe fatigue.
What is multiple sclerosis
This scale is useful for recording changes in neurological status and identifying appropriate functional goals for rehabilitation
What is American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA)