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N480 Critical Care > Week 4 Neurovascular > Flashcards

Week 4 Neurovascular Flashcards

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Increased Intracranial Pressure (ICP)

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Prolonged pressure above 15 mmHg

  • Pathophysiology
  • Causes
  • Diagnostics and Tx
    + Ventriculostomy
    + Craniotomy
    + External ventricular drainage (EVD)
    + Cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP)
  • Manifestations
    + Early s/s
    + GCS
    + Neurological assessment
    + Vitals
  • Interventions (“ICP-SS”)
  • Seizure precautions
  • Complications
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Increased ICP Med: Osmotic diuretic

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Mannitol

  • MOA
  • Goal
  • SE
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Increased ICP Med: Hypertonic saline

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3% saline

  • MOA
  • NI
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Increased ICP Med: Corticosteroids

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Dexamethasone

  • MOA
  • NI
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Increased ICP Med: Barbiturates

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Phenobarbital & Thiopental

  • MOA
  • NI
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Increased ICP Med: Anti-SZ

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Phenytoin

  • MOA
  • NI
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Increased ICP Med: Opioids

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Morphine sulfate or Fentanyl

  • MOA
  • NI
  • Reversal agents
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Head injury

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  • Open v Closed
  • Causes
  • Types
    + Important nursing consideration
  • Skull fracture manifestations
  • Head injury assessments
  • Base fractures
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Frontal lobe

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  • Personality
  • Thinking, planning, problem solving
  • Emotions
  • Behavioral control
  • Decision making
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Parietal lobe

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  • Object classification
  • Perception/space
    + Visuospatial processing
  • Numbers (i.e calculations)
    + Knowledge of numbers
  • Spelling
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Temporal

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  • Language & hearing
  • Aphasia
    + Receptive, expressive, global
  • Memory, understanding, facial recognition, vision, speech, emotion
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Occipital lobe

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  • Vision, visual processing
  • Color ID
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Cerebellum

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  • Balance
  • Fine/gross motor skills
  • Hand-eye coordination (finger-nose touch or heel-to-shin test)
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Brainstem

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  • Breathing & HR
  • Regulates body temp & swallowing
  • Components
    + Thalamus
    + Hypothalamus
    + Midbrain
    + Pons
    + RAS
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Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) Stroke

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  • Pathophysiology
    +Affected bodily fxns
  • Rx factors
  • Manifestations
    + “BE FAST”
  • Diagnostics
    + 1st test
    + Subsequent imaging
  • Types of stroke
    + Ischemic v Hemorrhagic stroke
  • Procedures
    + Coil embolization
    + Stent assisted coil embolization
    + Flow diversion
    + Clipping

+ Nursing assessment & priority interventions
+ Neuro assessments
+ Respiratory interventions
+ Cardiovascular
+ Nutrition
+ ADLs
+ Communication
+ Rehab

  • Medication (tPA)
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Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)

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Loss of mvt & sensation below injury

  • Diagnostics
  • Procedures
  • Causes
  • Key injury locations
    + Above T1 (C1-8)
    + C4
    + T6 & below
    + T1-12
    + L1-L5
    + S1-S5
  • Immobilizers
  • Assessments + Interventions
    + Emergency initial nursing care
    + Neurological assessment
    + Cardiac assessment
    + Respiratory assessment
  • Types of SCI shocks
    + Spinal shock
    + Neurogenic (vasogenic) shock
  • Complications
    + Autonomic dysreflexia
    + Orthostatic HOTN
  • Continuous care
    + GI, GU, muscular, immobility, reproductive
  • SCI classifications
    + Mechanism, level, & degree of injury
  • Diagnostic studies
  • SCI acute care
    + Emergency mgmt
    + Initial care
    + Initial assessment in ED
    + Additional assessment
    + Nonoperative stabilization
  • Nursing assessments
    + Subjective v Objective data
17
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SCI Med: Vasopressors

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Norepinephrine & Dopamine

  • Use
  • MOA
  • NI
18
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SCI Med: Anti-muscarinic

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Atropine

  • Use
  • MOA

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