ASLS STANDARD EXAMS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔t-PA exclusion 3-4.5 hours - ✔✔Age above 80 years
NIHSS over 25
Oral anticoagulants regardless of INR
Diabetes and prior ischemic stroke
✔✔ Ischemic stroke most common cause - ✔✔Thromboembolism
✔✔Ischemic stroke - ✔✔A blood clot forms in the vascular system, plugs a cerebral
artery
✔✔Ischemic stroke rate of occurrence - ✔✔85%
✔✔Intracerebral hemorrhage common cause - ✔✔Chronic hypertension
✔✔Intracerebral hemorrhage/hemorrhagic stroke - ✔✔A weakened vessel bleeds into
the brain
✔✔Intracerebral hemorrhage rate of occurrence - ✔✔15%
✔✔Subarachnoid hemorrhage common cause - ✔✔Aneurysm rupture
✔✔TIA causes - ✔✔Ischemia without infarction; thromboembolism
✔✔TIA treatment - ✔✔Transport, focus on cause, not duration
✔✔Pediatric stroke categories - ✔✔Arterial ischemic stroke
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
Intracerebral hemorrhage
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
✔✔In children ___% of strokes are hemorrhagic - ✔✔55
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔t-PA exclusion 3-4.5 hours - ✔✔Age above 80 years
NIHSS over 25
Oral anticoagulants regardless of INR
Diabetes and prior ischemic stroke
✔✔ Ischemic stroke most common cause - ✔✔Thromboembolism
✔✔Ischemic stroke - ✔✔A blood clot forms in the vascular system, plugs a cerebral
artery
✔✔Ischemic stroke rate of occurrence - ✔✔85%
✔✔Intracerebral hemorrhage common cause - ✔✔Chronic hypertension
✔✔Intracerebral hemorrhage/hemorrhagic stroke - ✔✔A weakened vessel bleeds into
the brain
✔✔Intracerebral hemorrhage rate of occurrence - ✔✔15%
✔✔Subarachnoid hemorrhage common cause - ✔✔Aneurysm rupture
✔✔TIA causes - ✔✔Ischemia without infarction; thromboembolism
✔✔TIA treatment - ✔✔Transport, focus on cause, not duration
✔✔Pediatric stroke categories - ✔✔Arterial ischemic stroke
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
Intracerebral hemorrhage
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
✔✔In children ___% of strokes are hemorrhagic - ✔✔55