STROKE REHABILITATION (With complete solution)

What should All suspected stroke patients be admitted directly and what does this allow? correct answers o Specialist acute stroke unit: o Early recognition and treatment of complications o MDT working o Co-ordinated and organised in-patient care with weekly MDT meetings o Programmes of education and training for staff, patients, carers o Involvement of carers in rehabilitation o Staff interest and expertise Define aphasia correct answers loss of ability to understand or express speech due to brain dysfunction What is expressive dysphasia? correct answers o understands language, but cannot find the right words o recognises incorrect language o reading and writing may be affected What is receptive dysphasia? correct answers o inability to understand language o does not recognise error in speech o reading & writing affected What is dysarthria? correct answers · know what they want to say, but cannot get the words out correctly · understanding, ready & writing notaffected What is hemianopia? correct answers Loss of one half of the visual fields Define apraxia correct answers Difficulty in performing tasks despite intact motor function Define asterognosis correct answers Inability to identify objects in both hands by touch alone despite intact sensation Define agnosia correct answers o Inability to recognise objects. o Persons, sounds, shapes or smells when the specific sense is intact or these is no memory loss Define inattention correct answers Inability to attend to stimuli bilaterally despite intact sensation When does aphasia usually occur? correct answers occurs when someone has a left hemisphere stroke - usually when Broca's or Wernicke's are the site of the location What is Receptive dysphasia due to? correct answers a lesion in Wernicke's area and results in the inability to understand language correctly