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NUR 211 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) PERFUSION 2 | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS INCLUDED
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NUR 211 Perfusion 21. occurs when there is ischemia or hemorrhage into the brain that results in death of a
brain cells.
Answer
Stroke (AKA brain attack or CVA)
2. What are modifiable risk factors for stroke?
Answer
HTN, heart disease, high cholesterol, smoking, lack of physical exercise, poor diet, excessalcohol
consumption, obesity, sleep apnea, metabolic syndrome, & drug abuse
3. What are the non-modifiable risk factors for stroke?
Answer
Age (risk doubles each decade after 55), gender (more common in men & more women die),
ethnicity ( increase incidence in African Americans), heredity/ family hx
4. What are the conditions associated with stroke risk?
Answer
Atrial fibrillation, cardiac valve abnormalities, diabetes mellitus
5. Does a TIA increase the risk of a stroke?
Answer
Yes
6. What is a TIA?
Answer
An episode of neurological dysfunction caused by focal brain, spinal cord, or retinal ischemia,
but without acute infarction of the brain.
7. How long does symptoms of a TIA last?
Answer
Usually last less than an hour
, 8. 1/3 of TIA's will progress to what?
Answer
Ischemic stroke
9. What is the warning sign for Ischemic strokes?
Answer
TIA
10. What two strokes are classified as ischemic?
Answer
Thrombotic and embolic
11. What is a thrombotic stroke?
Answer
the process of clot formation (thrombosis) results in a narrowing of the lumen, which blocks the
passage of the blood through the artery. (Slower development of symptoms).
12. What is a embolic stroke?
Answer
an embolus is a blood clot or other debris circulating in the blood. When it reaches an artery in the
brain that is too narrow to pass through, it lodges there & blocks the flow of blood. (Rapid
development of symptoms).
13. What is an hemorrhagic stroke?
Answer
A burst blood vessel may allow blood to seep into & damage brain tissues until clotting shuts off
the leak.
14. What is an ischemic stroke?
Answer
results from inadequate blood flow to the brain from partial or complete occlusion of an artery.
15. 80% of all strokes are
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