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FINAL EXAM - TBI Flashcards

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Acquired Brain injury (ABI)

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an injury to the brain that is not hereditary, congenital, or degenerative

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Causes of Non traumatic brain injury (5)

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  1. anoxia
  2. infections
  3. strokes
  4. tumors
  5. metabolic disorders
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Causes of Open TBI -5 (penetrating injuries)

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  1. assaults (gun shots, stabbint)
  2. falls
  3. accidents
  4. abuse
  5. surgery
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Cause of Closed TBI - 4 (internal pressure and shearing)

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  1. assaults
  2. falls
  3. accidents
  4. abuse
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TBI

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an alteration in brain fn or toher evidence of brain pathology caused by an external force

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Open TBI causes an increased risk of (3)

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  1. infection
  2. hematomas
  3. cranial nerve damage
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Mechanics of TBI - Coup-Contre Coup injury

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Coup = blow to the brain anteriorly 
Contrecoup = conunter-blow posteriorly (contusion, swelling, blood clots)`
Rotational forces (shearing, twisting)
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Mechanics of TBI - diffuse axonal injury
Cause
Results in 
Axons
Zone of axons
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caused by twisting, stretching, and sometimes tearing of nerve fibers
Once an axon is damaged it causes permanent death of the brain cell
Axons are responsible for sending signals away from the brain.
Zone of axons die = “swiss cheese” - holes in the brain

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Primary injuries occur at the time of impact. Includes:

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  1. skull fx
  2. intracranial hematomas
  3. cortical contusions
  4. lacerations, and penetrating wounds
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Hematomas

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bleeding in the brain which can cause shifting or compression of the brain matter. Pressure pushes down on brainstem. Can cause death

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Types of hematomas (4)

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  1. epidural
  2. subdural (most dangerous)
  3. intracerebral
  4. subarachnoid
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Secondary injuries evolve over a pd of hrs or days. Include (6)

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  1. increased intracranial pressure effects (caused by cerebral edema, hydrocephalus, brain herniation syndromes)
  2. focal ischemia
  3. decreased cerebral perfusion pressure
  4. risk of infection with open injuries
  5. risk of seizure
  6. other acute effects (DVT, HO, …)
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Diagnosis of Brain injury

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  1. CT scan or MRI - evidence of gross damage to the brain
  2. xray
  3. eeg
  4. neurological exam
  5. ICP monitor
  6. angiogram
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Decerebrate posture results from

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damage to the upper brain stem

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Decerebrate

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arms are adducted and extended, with wrist pronated and the fingers flexed. legs are stiffly extended, with plantar flexion of the feet. Higher level of fn on motor scale

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Decorticate posture results from

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damage to one or both corticospinal tracts

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Decorticate posture presentation

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arms are adducted and FLEXED, with wrist and fingers flexed on the chest. Legs are stiffly extended, ir, with planter flexion of the feet

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Glasgow coma scale

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tests eye opening, motor, and verbal commands. Score is out of 15, the higher the better

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Rancho Los Amigos: Level I

No Response: Total Assist

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No response to pain,touch, sound or site

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Rancho Los Amigos: Level II

Gerealized Response: Total Assit

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Generalized reflex response to pain

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Rancho Los Amigos: Level III

Localized Response: Total Assist

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Demonstrates withdrawal or vocalization to pain full stimuli. Responds inconsistently to commands

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Rancho Los Amigos: Level IV

Confused/Agitated: Max Assist

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Agitated. Very active, alert, or bizarre behaviors, performs motor activities but behavior is not purposeful. Extremely short attention span

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Rancho Los Amigos: Level V

Confused Inappropriate, Non-Agitated: Max Assist

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Gross attention to the environment, highly distractible, required continual redirection, difficulty learning new tasks, agitated by too much stimulation, may engage in social conversation but with inappropriate verbalization

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Rancho Los Amigos: Level VI

Confused Appropriate: Mod Assist

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Inconsistent orientation to time and place, retention span /recent memory impaired, recall past, consistently follows simple direction, goal directed behavior with assistance

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Rancho Los Amigos: Level VII

Automatic Appropriate: Min Assist

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Perform daily routine and highly familiar environment in non confused but automatic robot like manner. Skills noticeable deteriorate in unfamiliar environment. Lacks realistic planning for own future

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Rancho Los Amigos: Level VIII

Purposeful, Appropriate: Stand by assist

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Consistently orientated to person, place, time. Initiates and carries out steps to complete familiar personal, house hold, community, work, and leisure routines with standby assistance and can modify the plan when needed with minimal assistance

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Rancho Los Amigos: Level IX

Purposeful, Appropriate: Stand by assist on request

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Able to think of consequences or decisions or actions with assistance when requested. Initiates and carries out steps to complete familiar personal, household, community, work, and leisure routine independently and unfamiliar personal, household, community, work and leisure tasks with assistance when requested

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Rancho Los Amigos: Level X

Purposeful, Appropriate: Modified Indep.

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Able to think about consequences of decisions or actions with assistance when requested

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Impairments of the parietal lobe

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Inability to attend to more than one object at a time
Inability to name an object
Inability to locate the words to write
Problems with reading
difficulty drawing objects
Difficulty distinguishing left from right
Difficulty doing mathematics
Lack of awareness of certain body parts and or surrounding space
Inability to focus visual attention
Difficulty with eye hand coordination

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Impairment of the occipital lobe

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Deficits and vision
Difficulty locating objects in the environment
Difficulty identifying colors
Hallucinations
Visual illusions, or inaccurately seeing objects
Word blindness or inability to recognize words
Difficulty recognizing drawn objects
Inability to recognize the movement of an object
Difficulty reading and writing

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Impairments of the cerebellum

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Loss of ability to coordinate fine movements 
Loss of ability to walk 
Inability to reach out and grab objects 
Tremors 
Dizziness 
Slurred speech 
Inability to make rapid movement
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Impairments of the brain stem

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Difficulty swallowing food and water 
Difficulty organizing or proceeding the environment 
Problems with balance and movement 
Dizziness and nausea 
Sleeping difficulties
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Impairment of the frontal lobe

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Loss of simple movement of various body parts
Inability to plan a sequence of complex movie needed to complete multi-step tasks making coffee, sequencing
Loss of spontaneity and interaction with others
Loss of flexibility in thinking
Persistence of single thought
Inability focus on a task
Mood changes
Change in social behavior
Change in personality
difficulty with problem solving
Inability to express language

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Impairments of the temporal lobe

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Difficulty recognizing faces
Difficulty understanding spoken words
Disturbance with selective attention to what the person sees and hears
Difficulty with identification of verbalization about objects
Short term memory loss
Interference with long term memory
Increased or decreased interest in sexual behavior
Inability to categorize objects
Persistent talking
Increased aggressive behavior

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Cardiovasuclar System

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Can have changes in regulation of blood pressure and postural hypotension

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Respiratory system

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Can be impaired with brain stem damage; acute stage - potential need for artificial respiration

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Voice and speech fn

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Can be impaired due to the effects of intubation, vocal cord paralysis, impaired UMN control of the muscle movements required for these functions (swallowing, dysphagia management)

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Endocrine Disorders

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Patient show evidence of gonadotropin deficiency
growth hormone deficiency
Corticotrophin deficiency
Patient demonstrates vasopressin abnormalities leading to diabetes insipidus or the syndrome of inappropriate anti diuresis

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Digestive Function

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Have difficulty reflexes required to coordinate swallow; acquire use of NG tube or PEG tube feeding in acute stage; abnormal bowel movements due to dietary changes, motility issues, sensation required to feel the need

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Genitourinary fn

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May require use of catheters during acute State; may have incontinence issue do to reduce sensation and reduced control

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Reproductive fn

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Due to motor control issues, hormone issues, behavioral issue

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Client Factors in person with TBI

dysphagia

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Swallowing problems are generally pervasive throughout the early stages of recovery
Disruption to any of the three phases of normal swallowing is serious and can be life-threatening
Aspiration pneumonia may develop due to the presence of foreign material in the lungs; may occur silently

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Neuromuscular & Movement Related Fn : Tone

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Defined as resistance to stretch or movement across a joint when the patient is relaxed

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Neuromuscular & Movement Related Fn : Rigidity

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Is a function of time, but it is defined as the non velocity-dependent increase in tone; common with damage to the basal ganglia

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Neuromuscular & Movement Related Fn :Spasticity

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Is a function of town and is defined as velocity-dependent increase in tone; found with lesions of the upper motor neurons

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Neuromuscular & Movement Related Fn : joint mobility

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May be reduced from changes in the muscle tone but also from prolonged non use during early coma

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Neuromuscular & Movement Related Fn : Motor Reflexes

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reemergance of ATNR (Fence) TLR, STNR

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Neuromuscular & Movement Related Fn : involuntary movement reactions

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Difficulty with postural reactions, body adjustment reactions, supporting reactions; loss of reflexes action to protect self

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Neuromuscular & Movement Related Fn : control of voluntary movement

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Difficulty with eye hand, eye-foot coordination, bilateral integration, crossing midline, fine and gross motor cantrol

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Neuromuscular & Movement Related Fn : gait patterns

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Asymmetric gait, ataxia,

Stiff gate

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Neuromuscular & Movement Related Fn : muscle fn

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Muscle power and muscle endurance can be affected if the individual with TBI has had limited motor mobility while in coma

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Sensory Fn : hearing

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Due to cranial nerve damage, eardrum rupture, and/or central auditory processing issue (temporal lobe damage)

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Sensory Fn : taste

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Due to damage to cranial nerve and central processing of taste

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Sensory Fn : smell

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Potential shear injury to the olfactory bulb damage to the medial temporal lobe

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Sensory Fn : vestibular

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Damage to cranial nerves and or dislodging of rocks; and or central processing damage with links to visual system and postural system

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Sensory Fn : Touch

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Damage to the sensory cortex can cause lack of or reduced awareness of touch

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Sensory Fn : Proprioceptive

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Reduce responsiveness or lack of responsiveness of the feedback loops involved which tells us our body alignment and joint sense - If you can’t feel your leg you can’t feel secure

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Sensory Fn : Pain

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Headaches are common; may also have reduced or increased threshold to pain. Pain reactions can be hypo or hypersensitive due to mid brain damage

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Seizures

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If a patient has one post traumatic seizure the likelihood of having another is 50%

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Generalized tonic-clonic seizure

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Abnormal electrical activity and whole body; results in loss of consciousness and body stiffening, which is followed by shaking of the arms and legs.
Drop, stiffen, jerk

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Partial seizure

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Involves a localized area of abnormal electrical activity changes can occur and attention, movement, and or behavior.

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Absence seizure

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Brief stares; may have increased eye blink, and temporary shift in attention

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Post-Traumatic Agitation

Ranchos Level IV

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Agitation is a subtype of delirium unique to survivors of TBI in which the patient is in the state of PTA and in which excesses of behavior include some combination of aggression,akathisia, disinhibition, and/or emotional lability

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Diagnosis of post-traumatic agitation

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rule out other causes of agitation behavior: pain, noise, environment, sleep pattern disrupted

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Mild TBI

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No loss of consciousness (LOC) or briefs LOC less than 30 minutes 
GCS greater than 12 
PTA less than 30 minutes 
Dazed vacant stare right after injury 
normal neurological exam
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Prognosis of Mild TBI

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Rarely require inpatient rehab
Cognitive and behavioral changes improve within three to six months
Post concussion syndrome
Treatment involves patient and family education for use of compensatory strategies reassurance and psychological support

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Moderate TBI

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LOC between 30 minutes and 6 hours
GCS 9 to 12
PTA up to 24 hours

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Moderate TBI effects

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Physical cognitive psychosocial and emotional changes

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Moderate TBI prognosis

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Sometimes require acute inpatient hospitalization followed by a period Of outpatient rehabilitation may require community support

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Severe TBI

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Loc greater than 6 hours
GCS less than 9
PTA greater than 24 hours

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Effects of severe TBI

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Severe deficits in all areas

Affects all domains of daily living skills

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Prognosis of Severe TBI

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All require inpatient hospitalization and frequently extended inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation
Results highly variable, most patients have long-lasting impairment
Longer the length of the comment and PTA the poorer the outcome
Some never regain cognitive function
Dependent on caregiver

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Consequences of TBI

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Impacts basic and instrumental ADLs. results are highly variable across individuals. Consider the following variables: Severity of injury and stage of recovery, age, comorbidities, and pre-injury strength, personality, coping mechanisms, learning styles, preferences, roles and routines, and resources or support system

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Impact of TBI on person

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Depending on a person’s level of deficits, it can affect all or any of the occupations, performance skills, habits, routines, rituals, roles, and influence on context and environmental factors

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Acute Care Safety precautions

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Monitor: 
 vitals 
ICP parameters 
Negative changes in neurological response 
Seizures 
Skin breakdown prevention 
Aspiration prevention
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Seizure Safety precautions

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Slowly initiate use of tactile stimulation
Slowly initiate range of motion exercises
Monitor vitals
Look for changes in facial color
Look for autonomic changes - sudden perspiration, breathing rate
Avoid: Rapid repetitive stimulation

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ICP safety precautions

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If an ICP monitor is in please do not:
Turn head
Flex or extend neck
Place in prone
Give fluids unless clear to do so
Do:
Keep neck in neutral
Position HOB at neutral or elevated to 30 degree
Place patient in side lying to avoid extensor tone which can increase in supine
Encourage supported set at 90 degrees is permitted by MD
Encourage family members and significant others to engage and gentle touch quiet talking stroking patients face

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Sensory Fn : Vision

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Mechanical problems with eyes can cause; light sensitivity, eyestrain, blurred vision accommodative dysfunction, double vision, difficulty with fixation, tracking, and seccades

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Client Factors in person with TBI

Sensory Fn : Vision-Damage to the occipital lobe/visual system

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  1. hemianopsia
  2. neglect
  3. reduced speed, patter, accuracy of scanning
  4. impaired visual discrimination, spatial relations, figure ground, form constancy, visual closure
  5. impaired planning and organization of visual information
  6. reduced visual abstract reasoning
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Partial Seizure: Simple

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person remains conscious, may remember details of seizure - feeling before it comes on

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Partial Seizure: Complex

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person loses consciousness; symptoms confined to a localized area of brain

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Mild TBI Effects

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Delayed response to questions or commands 
Headaches dizziness or nausea 
Slurred speech 
Ringing in the ears blurred vision 
Disorientation and unclear memory

Note; the effects of repeated concussions are cumulative

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