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NUR 4445 Neuro1. Major structures formed in the trimester of pregnancy
Answer
first
2. Any insult during development can cause CNS
Answer
malformation
3. Maturation of the nerve cells
-The number of glial cells and increases until age 4
- growth continues through puberty
Answer
dendrites, brain
4. Maturation of myelin in nerve cells
-Myelin covering axons is at birth
-As myelination increases, primitive reflexes
Answer
incomplete, disappear
5. Maturation of skull
,-Cranial bones not fully ossified, allowing for
-Increase of risk for brain injury
Answer
brain growth
6. adults
-head=body size
-neck muscles developed
-skull
-vertebral bodies ossified
Answer
fused
7. infants/children
-head > body
-poorly developed neck muscles with excessive mobility
-skull not fused
-cartilaginous
-vertebral bodies with incomplete ossification
Answer
vertebra
8. assessing LOC Awake
only
only
Unresponsive
Answer
Verbal, pain
9.
-Flexor posturing
-Lesions above the brainstem
, Answer
decorticate (arms folded up to chest)
10.
-Rigid extensor posturing
-Lesions to the midbrain or brainstem
-Poor prognosis
Answer
decerebrate (arms down and fingertips point away)
11. coup
primary impact contrecoup
impact
Answer
secondary
12. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) cause of death in children under 15 y/o
Answer
-
leading
13. Primary patho of head injury
-At moment of impact, cellular damage
-Coup Injury - point of initial contact
-Contracoup - acceleration/deceleration of brain causes
- of small veins & arteries
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