ACBIS Module 1 Exam Questions & Answers (100% VERIFIED)
Question 1:
What is Acquired Brain Injury
Answer:
an injury to the brain that occurs after birth and is not hereditary, congenital, degenerative or induced by
birth trauma
Question 2:
What is a traumatic brain injury?
Answer:
an alteration in brain function or other evidence of brain pathology caused by an external force
Question 3:
What are the Characteristics of mild brain injury?
Answer:
Can have either brief or no loss of consciousness
vomiting lethargy dizziness
inability to recall what just happened.
Question 4:
A person with a brain injury is at risk for developing a significant disability due to what three reasons
Answer:
1. awareness and understanding about brain injury remain fairly limited.
Question 5:
2. brain injury is frequently not identified
Answer:
Question 6:
3. treatment is not always readily available
What are the two types of acquired brain injury
Answer:
traumatic and non-traumatic
Question 7:
What are two types of traumatic brain injury
Answer:
1. Open (or penetrating) injury
, Question 8:
2. Closed (or non penetrating) injury
What is the Glascow Coma Score?
Answer:
Injury severity rating
Question 9:
Characteristics of a moderate brain injury
Answer:
Unconsciousness for any period of time up to 24 hours, will have neurological signs of brain trauma,
including skull fractures with contusion or bleeding and may have focal findings on an
electroencephalograph (EEG) or computed tomography (CT) scan
Question 10:
Characteristics of a severe brain injury
Answer:
Glasgow Coma Scale of 8 or less, Coma longer than 24 hrs, bleeding in the brain, and signs on EEG or MRI
Question 11:
What is the incidence of brain injury?
Answer:
rate or range of occurrence, such as a certain number of brain injuries in a certain year
Question 12:
What is the prevalence of brain injury?
Answer:
the number of people currently living with a brain injury
Question 13:
What are the standards for a rehab facility?
Answer:
-Person centered practices that focus on their health and safety;
-A robust performance measurement, management, and improvement system that focuses on
continuous improvement of both clinical and business practices;
-Delivery of quality services by competent and well trained personnel; and
- Accountability to persons served, payers, and regulators.
Question 14:
What is the Olmstead decision:
Answer:
supreme court decision that people with disabilities should not be kept in institutions and should be
allowed more community treatment options
Question 1:
What is Acquired Brain Injury
Answer:
an injury to the brain that occurs after birth and is not hereditary, congenital, degenerative or induced by
birth trauma
Question 2:
What is a traumatic brain injury?
Answer:
an alteration in brain function or other evidence of brain pathology caused by an external force
Question 3:
What are the Characteristics of mild brain injury?
Answer:
Can have either brief or no loss of consciousness
vomiting lethargy dizziness
inability to recall what just happened.
Question 4:
A person with a brain injury is at risk for developing a significant disability due to what three reasons
Answer:
1. awareness and understanding about brain injury remain fairly limited.
Question 5:
2. brain injury is frequently not identified
Answer:
Question 6:
3. treatment is not always readily available
What are the two types of acquired brain injury
Answer:
traumatic and non-traumatic
Question 7:
What are two types of traumatic brain injury
Answer:
1. Open (or penetrating) injury
, Question 8:
2. Closed (or non penetrating) injury
What is the Glascow Coma Score?
Answer:
Injury severity rating
Question 9:
Characteristics of a moderate brain injury
Answer:
Unconsciousness for any period of time up to 24 hours, will have neurological signs of brain trauma,
including skull fractures with contusion or bleeding and may have focal findings on an
electroencephalograph (EEG) or computed tomography (CT) scan
Question 10:
Characteristics of a severe brain injury
Answer:
Glasgow Coma Scale of 8 or less, Coma longer than 24 hrs, bleeding in the brain, and signs on EEG or MRI
Question 11:
What is the incidence of brain injury?
Answer:
rate or range of occurrence, such as a certain number of brain injuries in a certain year
Question 12:
What is the prevalence of brain injury?
Answer:
the number of people currently living with a brain injury
Question 13:
What are the standards for a rehab facility?
Answer:
-Person centered practices that focus on their health and safety;
-A robust performance measurement, management, and improvement system that focuses on
continuous improvement of both clinical and business practices;
-Delivery of quality services by competent and well trained personnel; and
- Accountability to persons served, payers, and regulators.
Question 14:
What is the Olmstead decision:
Answer:
supreme court decision that people with disabilities should not be kept in institutions and should be
allowed more community treatment options
