Stroke
This many people suffer a stroke each year
What is 795,000?
Epilepsy affects this many people worldwide
What is 3 million?
The spine consists of bones, but how many?
What is 33?
(7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, 4 coccygeal)
Paramedics love mnemonics...if I am assessing AVPU, what does that stand for
What are alert, verbal stimuli, pain stimuli, and unresponsive?
The body has an amazing ability to control its own imbalance, but do you know what that is called?
What is the cerebral homeostasis
This type "comes" and "goes" at will
This seizure is known as a hysterical seizure caused by a psychological disorder
What is a pseudoseizure?
These two nervous systems consist of the brain and spinal cord, but what are their proper names?
What is Central and Peripheral?
Your male patient is experiencing sudden unilateral weakness or paralysis of facial muscles.
What is Bell's Palsy?
I have experienced a hit to the head and am posturing with my arms and legs extended
What is decerebrate posturing?
Altered mental status can be caused by many things...can you name a respiratory condition that can cause it?
What is Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
(inhalation of toxic gas and hypoxia)
The two main types of stroke
What are ischemic and hemorrhagic?
The two main types of seizures
What are generalized and focal seizures?
Fight-or-flight and feed-or-breed are better known as components of this system.
What is the Autonomic nervous system??
This is the most common type of back pain
What is low back pain (LBP)?
GCS is a great indicator of survival, but what does it actually measure?
What are eye-opening, verbal, and motor responses?
Altered mental status can be caused by many things...can you name a cardiovascular cause?
What is cardiac arrest?
(anaphylaxis, stroke, arrhythmia, encephalopathy, shock)
This is the most important "time" of note during stroke care.
What is the time of onset?
What is a focal seizure?
Meninges consist of three layers (DAP). Can you name them all?
What are the Dura mater, arachnoid membrane, and pia mater?
This is a genetic disease caused by a defect in chromosome 4: typically adult-onset.
What is Huntington's disease?
I have experienced a hit to the head and am posturing with my arms flexed, but legs straight and stiff.
What is decorticate posturing?
Altered mental status can be caused by many things...can you name two drug categories that cause it?
What are narcotics and depressants?
(hallucinogens)
BEFAST assesses or measures
What is balance, eyes, face, arms, speech, and time?
This type of seizure is a series of two or more generalized motor seizures without a period of return of consciousness.
What is status epilepticus?
The spinal cord is protected for a reason...but what does it actually do?
What is responsible for conducting impulses to and from the peripheral nervous system to the body?
This disease results from death and disappearance of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex (atrophy of the brain)
When doing an assessment, the patient is found to have increased blood pressure, decreased pulse, and irregular respirations...what is this "triad" of symptoms telling you the patient is experiencing?
What is Cushing's triad (increased ICP)?
Altered mental status can be caused by many things...can you name all 4 types of infections that the book says it can be caused by?
What are AIDS, Encephalitis, Meningitis, and Parasites?