TBI Flashcards
1
Q
Which age group has the highest rate of TBI related emergency department visits?
A
Male children age 0-4
2
Q
What is the leading cause of TBIs?
A
Falls
3
Q
Suffering a TBI to which lobe will result in visual defects and word blindness?
A
Occipital
4
Q
____ affects nerve fibers through shearing force and disconnects nerves, causing swelling in the brain, seen in back and forth brain shaking.
A
Diffuse Axonal Injury-
5
Q
Ataxia
A
lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movements
6
Q
Stereognosis
A
The appreciation of the form of an object by means of touch.
7
Q
Dysphagia
A
Difficulty swallowing
8
Q
Kinesthesia
A
Awareness of the movement of ones’s body
