Stroke

Question 1

Thrombus

Define

Answer 1

Blood clot

Question 2

Ischemic strokes

Define

Answer 2

Blood clot that goes into the brain blood vessels

Question 3

Embolic storke

Define

Answer 3

A clot travels from another area of the body and lodges itself in the cerebral artery

Question 4

Hemorrhagic stroke

Define

Answer 4

Rupture of a weakened artery that causes bleeding within the brain

Question 5

Subarachnoid

Define

Answer 5

The space between the brain and the surrounding membrane

Question 5

Fibrinolytic drug

What is its action

Answer 5

Used to dissolve blood clots in the veins or arteries

Question 6

Stroke

S/S

Answer 6

• Headache
• Nausea & vomiting
• Paralysis or weakness to one side of the body
• Facial drooping
• Decreased LOC
• Numbness, tingling, or loss of sensation in hand, arm, leg, or face all on the same side of the body
• Vision disturbances
• Eye gaze - One eye wanders toward the side with the brain clot or bleed
• Ataxia - loss of coordination
• Could have light sensitivity

Question 7

Can you give a fibrinolytic drug to a pt with a hemorrhagic stroke?

and why

Answer 7

No, because it will increase bleeding in the brain

Question 8

Transient ischemic attack

Define

Answer 8

Stroke like symptoms that resole spontaneously within 24 hours
* Is a precurser to a stroke

Question 9

Athersclerosis

Define

Answer 9

Fat deposits in the arteries

Question 10

Aphasia

Define

Answer 10

Can’t form or comprehend words at all

Question 11

Expressive aphasia

Define

Answer 11

The patient can comprehend your words, knows what to say, but cant form the right response
* Will have speech but it might be slurred or not make sense at all

Question 12

Receptive aphasia

Define

Answer 12

Patient responds fluently but with words that do not match what was asked or told

Question 13

Ataxia

Define

Answer 13

Loss of coordination