Week 11: TBI and Seizures Flashcards
Primary cause of comas?
Diffuse axonal injury
What are shearing forces on the brain that cause white matter damage to basal ganglia, corpus collosum, etc.?
Diffuse axonal injury
T/F
TBI is often more severe than anoxic BI.
False
How long does it take from brain cells with no oxygen supply to die?
4 minutes
On Glasgow coma scale does a high or low score have better prognosis? range for mild, mod, severe?
high score is better prognosis
mild = 14-15
mod = 9-13
severe = 3-8
Is decerebrate or decorticate posture more severe?
decerebrate
What is the main diffference b/w decerebrate or decorticate posture?
decerebrate the elbows are extended
decorticate the elbows are flexed
Type of seizure that arises from a specific area or lobe of cerebrum. (general name)
Partial/focal seizure
Type of seizure that comes from both hemispheres at the same time. (general name)
Generalized seizure
Seizure that lasts 10-20 seconds, sudden jerking, no LOC, possible sensory or emotional experiences
simple partial seizure
What is automatisms and what type of seizure does it usually occur with?
- constant moving or doing something repeatedly w/o knowledge they are doing it
- complex partial seizure
Seizure that lasts 1-2 minutes, aura, automatism, altered consciousness
complex partial seizure
Pepit-mal is aka
generalized absence seizure
What happens in a generalized atonic seizure?
abrupt drop attack
Seizure w/brief involuntary muscle jerking, usually on one side of body
generalized myoclonic seizure
