Stroke and risk facors
The are 3 types of Strokes?
What is Ischemic, Hemorrhagic and TIA?
Another name of a TIA
What is a mini stroke
The 2 subtypes of hemorrhagic stroke
What is Intracerebral and subarachnoid
The 2 types of ischemic strokes are.
What is thrombotic or embolic
The 3 components of intracranial regulation are
What is brain tissue, blood, and cerebrospinal fluid
The 3 warning signs of stroke.
what are: Facial Drooping, arm weakness, speech impairment
The key to identifying a TIA is
What is short term symptoms
3 risk factors for intracerebral hemorrhage
What are Hypertension, coagulation disorders, anticoagulant drugs, trauma, brain tumors, rupture aneurysms
The difference in the 2 types of ischemic is
What is Thrombotic is a thrombus that blocks the lumen and blocks the passage of blood to the artery
And Embolic is a clot and other debris (fat/air) that are circulating through the system until they get to the brain and get stuck in the narrowed arteries.
3 things that ICP is influenced by
What is arterial pressure, venous pressure, Intra-abdominal and intrathoracic pressure, Posture, Temperature, and CO2 levels
3 nonmodifiable risk factors for stroke?
What is age, gender, ethnicity, race or family history
Left sided stroke affects what side of the body
What is the right
3 symptoms of intracerebral hemorrhage
What are Headache, neurological changes, vomiting, decreased LOC, and hypertension
IV Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA) must be given how close to symptom onset
3-4.5 hr of symptom onset
3 issues that can happen due to ICP
What is hypercapnia, acidosis, worsened cerebral edema, brain herniation, CSF leak, brain bleeds, or brain death
4 modifiable risk factors for stroke.
Hypertension, a fib, diabetes, smoking, obesity, sleep apnea, metabolic syndrome, OCPs, sedimentary life style, and drug and alcohol use
The Right sided stroke affects what side of the body
What is the Left
The cause of a subarachnoid hemorrhage
What is a cerebral aneurysm
4 absolute contradictions' to the use of IV tPA
What is coagulation disorder, GI bleed, Recent stroke, head trauma within 3 months, major surgery within 14 days, and internal bleeding within 22 days
3 changes in VS with ICP
What is systolic hypertension, Widening pulse pressure, Bradycardia, Bounding pulse, and irregular respirations
BEFAST helps us remember stroke what
What is warning signs
The side of the brain that increases "Risky" behavior
What is right
2 risk factors of subarchnoid hemmorhage
What is Trauma, Cocaine use, and Female gender
Permissive hypertension is only allowed if not using tPA and BP is greater than
What is 220/120
The patient has bounding bradycardia, irregular respirations and a widened pulse pressure which is what
What is cushing's triad