Lecture 16: TBI, Vascularization and Stroke Flashcards
What is traumatic brain injury?
Insult to brain caused by external physical force (not degenerative or congenital nature). May produce a diminished or altered state of consciousness. May result in an impairment in cognitive abilities or physical functioning
Prognosis for Brain Injury
younger, shorter coma, shorter post traumatic amnesia (anterograde), small brain injury, location based (damage in CNS or not), cause of injury (fall v. gun)
Fun fact about TBI
Males 15-24 at higher risk followed by elderly, infants. Motor vehicles biggest cause followed by falls and violence/sports injuries
Skull intact, no penetration of skull
Closed head injury TBI
Penetration of skull with direct injury
Open head injury TBI
What is most common type of TBI?
Focal injury (local, damage to specific area). Direct impact of short duration related to deceleration/acceleration ex) coup-contra-coup (usually seen with diffuse axon injury)
Coup-contra-coup
Brain hurled against skull then ricochets in oppo. direction (frontal and temporal most often damaged (under focal injury)
Contusion
Bruises
Diffuse axonal injury
Stretch injury to membrane of axon, leading to axon breakage (Diffuse injury)
Secondary damage is increased intracranial pressure, swelling hemorrhage, oxygen deprivation
Diffuse injury (TBI)
Damage is diffuse and impact several areas, occur from hypoxia, damage in blood vessels
Diffuse Injury (TBI)
Hematoma
localized collection of blood, usually clotted in tissue or organ (epidural, subdural, intracerebral)
Epidural hematoma
above dura (between brain and skull)
Subdural hematoma
Below dura
Intracerebral hematoma
Inside brain
Coma
state person makes no purposeful response to environment and rom which she can’t be aroused (may last hours or days) followed by semi coma (confusion)
Glasgow Coma Scale
way to record conscious state of person. 15 is awake (us), and 3 is death, deep coma (tests eye, verbal, motor)
State of inconsistent, erratic responsiveness generally unable to communicate with outside world
Minimally conscious state
TBI cognitive impairment consists of…
diminished mental processing speed, difficulty with divided attention, difficulty with executive functions
Where is damage if you have dysarthria?
Right or left. It is slurred speech, mechanical issue, damage to motor cortex/cranial nerves/corticobulbar
Where is damage if you have aphasia?
Generally damage to LEFT hemisphere (Broca’s, Wernicke’s, global) Deficit in language
Anterograde Amnesia
More common esp. after injury and comma (can be period or days) can’t remember moment of injury and things after.
Where is damage if you have spasticity, atypical reflexes?
upper motor neuron/hyper reflexia
Where is damage if you have poor balance and equilibrium?
Cerebellum
Where is damage if you have abnormal postures?
Descending motor, basal ganglia
Where is damage if you have difficulty swallowing?
Cranial Nerves
Where is damage if you have tremors?
Resting tremor (basal ganglia), intention tremors (cerebellum)
Where is damage if you have Athetosis?
Basal Ganglia (involuntary writhing movements)
Damage to ventral and medial prefrontal association cortices?
Personality/Emotion: poor judgment, irritability, apathy, altered sex drive, decreased goal directed, impaired social skills, emotional lability, limited self awareness
Where is damage if you have apraxia?
Damage in left hemisphere (left PTO)
Where is damage if you have unilateral neglect?
Damage to right PTO
Where is damage if you have visual spatial, poor body awareness?
Damage to right PTO
Where is damage if you have constructional apraxia?
Right PTO
What are the two paired arteries from aorta that supply blood to brain?
Internal Carotid (anterior) and Vertebral-basilar (posterior)
Role of Internal Carotid artery?
Anterior supply, supplies majority of cerebral hemispheres
Role of Vertebral Basilar artery?
posterior supply, supplies brainstem, cerebellum and some of the cerebral hemisphere - two vertebral merge to form basilar
Circle of Willis
Branches of internal carotid and basilar arties form circle ( 2 posterior, 2 anterior, 2 middle cerebral arteries, and 3 communicating arteries. Circulatory anastomosis that supplies blood to the brain and surrounding structures
What is anastomosis?
Ring of 9 arteries that supply all blood to brain (6 large, 3 communicating arteries)
Internal Carotid branches into…
Anterior cerebral (middle) and Middle Cerebral (lateral)
Basilar artery branches into…
posterior cerebral
What is from the internal carotid, and supplies lateral surface of most of lateral hemispheres: frontal, parietal and temporal lobes (except for inferior temp. lobes)
Middle Cerebral Artery
What branches penetrate and supply deep structures of internal capsule, basal ganglia, optic tract, and radiations?
Middle Cerebral Artery
Damage to Middle Cerebral Artery leads to…
Everything but memory is impaired:
- Motor (contralateral hemiplegia, UE/face most affected)
- Sensory (contralateral hemianesthesia (UE/face most affected)
- Language (L. aphasia/L. aprosodia, and R/L mechanical disorder of speech disarthria)
- Perceptual (R. Agnosia, difficulty with spacial relationship, left neglect, constructional apraxia. L. apraxia)
- Vision: contralateral homonymous hemianopia
- MEMORY FINE
- Emotion/behavior: change in emotion/personality and often times executive functioning
What artery supplies medial aspects of frontal and parietal lobes?
Anterior Cerebral Artery