Inside the Brain
The type of stroke caused by a blockage of blood supply to the brain.
Medical term for poor balance or stumbling, staggering gait.
What is ataxia?
Computerized tomography is only useful for detecting this type of stroke, in the emergency setting.
What is hemorrhagic stroke?
Abnormal tangling of vessels causing irregular connections between arteries and veins.
What is Arteriovenous Malformation?
Increasing ICP can result in this condition, which is abnormal electrical activity in the brain.
What is a seizure?
The area of the brain surrounding the injured or infarcted area of the stroke.
What is pneumbra?
This medical term describes visual defects that affect vision in a vertical fashion, resulting in the absence of one half of normal visual acuity in each eye.
What is hemianopsia?
Surgical removal of occlusions in the carotid artery.
What is carotid endarterectomy?
A weakness in the wall of a cerebral artery that may be congenital, traumatic or the result of disease.
What is cerebral aneurysm?
This blood value is closely monitored, and ideally kept below 140 mg/dL because elevated levels are associated with worsening infarct and hemorrhage.
What is glucose?
This type of stroke is a blood vessel rupture in the deep tissue of the brain, and is usually caused by uncontrolled hypertension.
What is intracerebral hemorhage?
This term describes extremities being without muscle tone.
What is flaccid?
An imaging procedure that uses contrast dye injected into carotid arteries.
What is carotid angiogram (angiography)?
Definitive treatment for aneurysm involves this surgical procedure, creating a bone flap to expose the brain.
What is craniotomy?
Constipation may result in straining, which can increase ICP, so to prevent straining this class of medications is frequently ordered.
What are stool softeners?
This type of stroke occurs when a blood clot created outside of the brain travels in the brain, causing an occlusion.
What is an embolic stroke?
The inability to understand spoken and or written language.
What is receptive aphasia?
Tissue plasminogen (thrombolytic) activator works best when given within this time frame, from symptom onset.
What is 4.5 hours?
Ventricloperitoneal shunts are used to treat this condition, that occasionally occurs after subarachnoid hemorrhagic strokes.
What is hydrocephalus?
"Permissive hypertension" is usually allowed in ischemic strokes, but for patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, blood pressure is maintained at or below this level.
What is 120/80?
This type of stroke occurs on the surface of the brain and is most often the result of a ruptured cerebral aneurysm.
What is subarachnoid hemorrhage?
If a patient had a right sided stroke, this term would describe paralysis of the left upper and lower extremities.
What is contralateral hemiperisis?
These antiplatelet medication should be started within 24 hours of neurologic deficits, to those who can safely take them.
What is aspirin and or clopidogrel (Plavix) and or aspirin/diphridamole (Aggrenox)?
Sudden constriction of a blood vessel, causing its diameter to narrow. This occurance is responsible for most long-term complications of subarachnoid hemorrhage.
What is vasospasm?
What is 185/110?