SCRN UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY
GUIDE
●● Pt presents complaining of double vision, lacks horizontal eye
movements while tracking is preserved.
What area of the brain can cause internuclear opthalmoplegia?
Answer: Brainstem
●● Visual field deficits & impaired lateral gaze
Answer: Mid brain
●● 1st hour following ICH, damage to brain cells is due to
Answer: Mechanical pressure
●● Best measure of risk for a pt with fam hx of stroke
Answer: Framington stroke profile
●● post endarterectomy for stenosis home regimen: crucial
Answer: Aspirin
, ●● Watershed stroke is described as:
Answer: Stroke between two adjacent cerebral arteries
Ex ACA & MCA
●● Cerebrospinal fluid is produced at a rate of...
Answer: 0.3-0.4ml/min
●● A patient with locked-in syndrome most likely had an infarct in the...
Answer: Basilar artery
Can still move eyes
●● A lacunar infarct is indicative of an event...
Answer: in a small deep arteries
Chronic HTN
●● The MOST important point to emphasize in a community education
program on strokes that will directly improve patient outcome and
disability in setting of a stroke?
Answer: Activate EMS
●● What is a risk factor for a spontaneous carotid dissection?
Answer: Connective tissue disease
Trauma
CORRECT ANSWERS COMPLETE STUDY
GUIDE
●● Pt presents complaining of double vision, lacks horizontal eye
movements while tracking is preserved.
What area of the brain can cause internuclear opthalmoplegia?
Answer: Brainstem
●● Visual field deficits & impaired lateral gaze
Answer: Mid brain
●● 1st hour following ICH, damage to brain cells is due to
Answer: Mechanical pressure
●● Best measure of risk for a pt with fam hx of stroke
Answer: Framington stroke profile
●● post endarterectomy for stenosis home regimen: crucial
Answer: Aspirin
, ●● Watershed stroke is described as:
Answer: Stroke between two adjacent cerebral arteries
Ex ACA & MCA
●● Cerebrospinal fluid is produced at a rate of...
Answer: 0.3-0.4ml/min
●● A patient with locked-in syndrome most likely had an infarct in the...
Answer: Basilar artery
Can still move eyes
●● A lacunar infarct is indicative of an event...
Answer: in a small deep arteries
Chronic HTN
●● The MOST important point to emphasize in a community education
program on strokes that will directly improve patient outcome and
disability in setting of a stroke?
Answer: Activate EMS
●● What is a risk factor for a spontaneous carotid dissection?
Answer: Connective tissue disease
Trauma
