ACBIS Exam Questions with Correct Answers

ACBIS Exam Questions & Answers (100% VERIFIED)


Question 1:
What is an ABI?
Answer:
is an injury to the brain that is not congenital, hereditary, degenerative, or induced by birth trauma.


Question 2:
What are the 4 causes of ABI?
Answer:
Assaults, Sports accidents, Falls, Stroke


Question 3:
Why is brain injury the silent epidemic?
Answer:
Many problems that result from brain injuries are not always apparent, and therefore never addressed


Question 4:
Most common cause of brain injury (according to CDC)?
Answer:
Stroke (~6.2 million)


Question 5:
What is a coup-contrecoup injury?
Answer:
First the head moves forward (linear acceleration) and then upon striking an object (rapid linear
deceleration of brain wich in turn results in frontal lobe focal lesion (coup). Second the head then
rebounds moving backwards striking an object causing occipital lobe focal lesion (countercoup)


Question 6:
What are primary injuries?
Answer:
The initial injury to the brain, defining the injury as traumatic vs non traumatic.

, Question 7:
What are secondary injuries?
Answer:
-Hypoxia
-Anemia
-Hydrocephalus
-Edema
-metabolic abnormalities


Answer:
-hemorrhagic activity
-intracranial hypertension


Question 8:
What is mild LOC?
Answer:
brief or no LOC (30min)


Question 9:
What is moderate LOC?
Answer:
any LOC up to 24 hrs


Question 10:
What is severe LOC?
Answer:
LOC of 24+ hrs


Question 11:
What will moderate severity show?
Answer:
It will show signs of brain trauma, skull fxs, contusions, bleeding.


Question 12:
Risk factors for obtaining a TBI?
Answer:
-injury severity (previous ABI)
-participation in sports
-Age
-Alcohol misuse
-Domestic violence
-Military