EMT Medical FISDAP Exam with Complete
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Seizures may occur as a result of: -
☑️-A recent or prior head injury
-A brain tumor
-A metabolic problem
-Fever
-A genetic disposition
If someone has a severe headache, seizures, and altered mental status, what would you suspect? -
☑️stroke
If someone has headache, vomiting, altered mental status, and seizures, what would you suspect? -
☑️intracranial pressure (ICP)
If someone has increasing ICP, what could this be? -
☑️-hemorrhagic stroke
-tumor
-recent head trauma.
What is a stroke? Another name? -
☑️-interruption of blood flow to an area within the brain that results in the loss of brain
function.
-A cerebrovascular accident (CVA)
What is an ischemic stroke? -
☑️blood flow through the cerebral arteries is blocked.
What is a hemorrhagic stroke? -
☑️Blood forms a clot, which compresses the brain tissue next to it.
What can ischemic stroke be caused by? -
☑️-thrombosis - where a clot forms at the site of blockage
-embolus - where the clot forms in a remote area and then travels to the site of blockage.
The compression from a hemorrhagic stroke prevents what? -
☑️oxygenated blood from getting into the area, and the brain cells begin to die.
Who are people at high risk for hemorrhagic stroke? -
☑️-stress or exertion
-high blood pressure
What is an aneurysm? -
1
, ☑️a swelling or enlargement of the wall of an artery resulting from a defect or weakening
of the arterial wall.
What is a symptom of a hemorrhagic stroke? -
☑️severe headache
When stroke-like symptoms go away on their own in less than 24 hours, the event is called a _____
-
☑️transient ischemic attack.
What are the signs and symptoms of a stroke? -
☑️a. Facial drooping
b. Sudden weakness or numbness in the face, arm, leg, or one side of the body
c. Decreased or absent movement and sensation on one side of the body
d. Lack of muscle coordination (ataxia) or loss of balance
e. Sudden vision loss in one eye, or blurred and double vision
f. Difficulty swallowing
g. Decreased level of responsiveness
h. Speech disorders
i. Aphasia: difficulty expressing thoughts or inability to use the right words (expressive aphasia) or
difficulty understanding spoken words (receptive aphasia)
j. Slurred speech (dysarthria)
k. Sudden and severe headache
l. Confusion
m. Dizziness
n. Weakness
o. Combativeness
p. Restlessness
q. Tongue deviation
r. Coma
A stroke in the left hemisphere may cause ___. -
☑️ Aphasia = the inability to produce or understand speech.
Describe a stroke in the right hemisphere. -
☑️-patients will understand language and be able to speak,
-their words may be slurred and hard to understand.
If there is bleeding in the brain, patients may have ? -
☑️-very high blood pressure.
---May be the cause of the bleeding or may be caused by bleeding
What conditions could mimic a stroke? -
☑️-hypoglycemia
-postictal state
-subdural or epidural bleeding
What is the postictal state? -
☑️Period following seizure that lasts between 5 and 30 minutes, characterized by labored
respirations and some degree of altered mental status
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Solutions 100%
Seizures may occur as a result of: -
☑️-A recent or prior head injury
-A brain tumor
-A metabolic problem
-Fever
-A genetic disposition
If someone has a severe headache, seizures, and altered mental status, what would you suspect? -
☑️stroke
If someone has headache, vomiting, altered mental status, and seizures, what would you suspect? -
☑️intracranial pressure (ICP)
If someone has increasing ICP, what could this be? -
☑️-hemorrhagic stroke
-tumor
-recent head trauma.
What is a stroke? Another name? -
☑️-interruption of blood flow to an area within the brain that results in the loss of brain
function.
-A cerebrovascular accident (CVA)
What is an ischemic stroke? -
☑️blood flow through the cerebral arteries is blocked.
What is a hemorrhagic stroke? -
☑️Blood forms a clot, which compresses the brain tissue next to it.
What can ischemic stroke be caused by? -
☑️-thrombosis - where a clot forms at the site of blockage
-embolus - where the clot forms in a remote area and then travels to the site of blockage.
The compression from a hemorrhagic stroke prevents what? -
☑️oxygenated blood from getting into the area, and the brain cells begin to die.
Who are people at high risk for hemorrhagic stroke? -
☑️-stress or exertion
-high blood pressure
What is an aneurysm? -
1
, ☑️a swelling or enlargement of the wall of an artery resulting from a defect or weakening
of the arterial wall.
What is a symptom of a hemorrhagic stroke? -
☑️severe headache
When stroke-like symptoms go away on their own in less than 24 hours, the event is called a _____
-
☑️transient ischemic attack.
What are the signs and symptoms of a stroke? -
☑️a. Facial drooping
b. Sudden weakness or numbness in the face, arm, leg, or one side of the body
c. Decreased or absent movement and sensation on one side of the body
d. Lack of muscle coordination (ataxia) or loss of balance
e. Sudden vision loss in one eye, or blurred and double vision
f. Difficulty swallowing
g. Decreased level of responsiveness
h. Speech disorders
i. Aphasia: difficulty expressing thoughts or inability to use the right words (expressive aphasia) or
difficulty understanding spoken words (receptive aphasia)
j. Slurred speech (dysarthria)
k. Sudden and severe headache
l. Confusion
m. Dizziness
n. Weakness
o. Combativeness
p. Restlessness
q. Tongue deviation
r. Coma
A stroke in the left hemisphere may cause ___. -
☑️ Aphasia = the inability to produce or understand speech.
Describe a stroke in the right hemisphere. -
☑️-patients will understand language and be able to speak,
-their words may be slurred and hard to understand.
If there is bleeding in the brain, patients may have ? -
☑️-very high blood pressure.
---May be the cause of the bleeding or may be caused by bleeding
What conditions could mimic a stroke? -
☑️-hypoglycemia
-postictal state
-subdural or epidural bleeding
What is the postictal state? -
☑️Period following seizure that lasts between 5 and 30 minutes, characterized by labored
respirations and some degree of altered mental status
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