Post-Test: Stroke (ALS Edition)
During your assessment of a 62-year-old female, you note she is able to move both sides of her face normally, has right arm weakness, and weak right hand grip strength. Which of the following best describes your findings? correct answersThe patient has a positive CPSS.
Your patient is a 62-year-old male who is nauseated, has difficulty swallowing, decreased level of consciousness, and abnormal eye movements. You should suspect: correct answersBrainstem stroke.
Your patient is a 59-year-old female who is vomiting, dizzy, has coordination and balance problems, and abnormal torso reflexes. You should suspect: correct answersCerebellar stroke.
Your patient is a 63-year-old African-American male who is experiencing loss of vision in one eye and difficulty speaking. His symptoms began at 11 a.m. His vital signs are BP 120/80, P 80, and R 14. You should suspect: correct answersStroke.
Your patient is a 58-year-old female who is experiencing altered mental status, impaired judgement, and urinary incontinence. You should suspect: correct answersEmbolus in the anterior cerebral artery.
An 80-year-old male is experiencing vomiting, expressive aphasia, weakness to the entire left side of his body, right gaze preference, and problems with comprehension. His vital signs are BP 138/88, P 78, R 14, and SpO2 96%. What should you do first? correct answersCheck blood glucose.
A 78-year-old female presents with an altered level of consciousness, and flaccid paralysis to the right side of her body. Her vital signs are: BP 218/132, P 38, and R 20 and irregular. Her ECG reveals sinus bradycardia. What should you do? correct answersProvide ventilatory support at 18 breaths per minute.
Which grade of subarachnoid hemorrhage produces mild headache without meningeal irritation? correct
answersGrade 1
A 59-year-old female is vomiting and dizzy. She has coordination and balance problems, and abnormal torso reflexes. You should suspect: correct answersCerebellar stroke.
During your assessment of a 62-year-old female, you note she is able to move both sides of her face normally, has right arm weakness, and weak right hand grip strength. Which of the following best describes your findings? correct answersThe patient has a positive CPSS.
Your patient is a 62-year-old male who is nauseated, has difficulty swallowing, decreased level of consciousness, and abnormal eye movements. You should suspect: correct answersBrainstem stroke.
Your patient is a 59-year-old female who is vomiting, dizzy, has coordination and balance problems, and abnormal torso reflexes. You should suspect: correct answersCerebellar stroke.
Your patient is a 63-year-old African-American male who is experiencing loss of vision in one eye and difficulty speaking. His symptoms began at 11 a.m. His vital signs are BP 120/80, P 80, and R 14. You should suspect: correct answersStroke.
Your patient is a 58-year-old female who is experiencing altered mental status, impaired judgement, and urinary incontinence. You should suspect: correct answersEmbolus in the anterior cerebral artery.
An 80-year-old male is experiencing vomiting, expressive aphasia, weakness to the entire left side of his body, right gaze preference, and problems with comprehension. His vital signs are BP 138/88, P 78, R 14, and SpO2 96%. What should you do first? correct answersCheck blood glucose.
A 78-year-old female presents with an altered level of consciousness, and flaccid paralysis to the right side of her body. Her vital signs are: BP 218/132, P 38, and R 20 and irregular. Her ECG reveals sinus bradycardia. What should you do? correct answersProvide ventilatory support at 18 breaths per minute.
Which grade of subarachnoid hemorrhage produces mild headache without meningeal irritation? correct
answersGrade 1
A 59-year-old female is vomiting and dizzy. She has coordination and balance problems, and abnormal torso reflexes. You should suspect: correct answersCerebellar stroke.
