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| counter-blow injury resulting from coup injury |
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| What is the lowest possible level of consciousness |
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| Coma is characterized by what |
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| What indicates advanced brain failure or damage to bilateral cerebral hemispheres of the brainstem |
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| How long to comas typically last |
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| what can a vegetative state be a result of |
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| diffuse cerebral hypoxia, severe white matter damage from impact |
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| What are teh 3 tests of the glascow coma scale |
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| eye, verbal, motor response |
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| What is the lowest score for the comas sclae |
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| What is the highest score for the coma scale |
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| What would indicate a severe brain injury |
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| What would indicate a moderate brain injury |
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| What would indicate a minor brain injury |
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| The axons directly disrupted by the trauma die this way in th efirst 18 hours |
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| What triggers apoptosis in an SCI |
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| chemical signals from monocytes and macrophages |
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| Apoptosis occurs at the level of the injury but also as far as ____ spinal segments from the injury site |
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| Damage to teh descenidng motor tracts leads to _____ and ____ of reflexes |
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| Tone in the muscles below the level of the lesions as well as reflexes gradually ______ over the next few weeks |
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| Spasticity or hypertonicity eventually |
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| Spasticity may increase with: 1 |
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| Spasticity may increase with: 2 |
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| Spasticity may increase with: 3 |
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| Spasticity may increase with: 4 |
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| pressure sore below level of the lesion |
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| Spasticity may increase with: 5 |
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| drastic changes in temperature |
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| Spasticity may increase with: 6 |
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| What is Autonomic Dysreflexia attributed to |
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| interruption of the spinal cord sympathetic pathways |
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| Autonomic dysrelfexia can occur in anyone who has a SCI at or above what? |
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| Autonomic dysreflexia impairs what |
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| control mechanisms for blood pressure and heart function |
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| impairs the function of the AND adn the simultaneous activity of the SNS and PNS |
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| Musculoskeletal changes: 1 |
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| abnormal fusion of joint below level of the lesion |
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| Musculoskeletal changes: 2 |
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| pain due to nerve root compression |
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| Musculoskeletal changes: 3 |
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| Musculoskeletal changes: 4 |
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| Musculoskeletal changes: 5 |
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| Musculoskeletal changes: 6 |
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| Respiratory Complications: 1 |
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| paralysis of the diaphgram in lesions above C4 |
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| Respiratory Complications: 2 |
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| muscles of experiation impaires in lessions between C5 adn T12 |
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| Respiratory Complications: 3 |
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| paralysis of external obliques impairs ability to cough and clear mucus |
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| Respiratory Complications: 4 |
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| altered breathing patterns |
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| Respiratory Complications: 5 |
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| aspiratoin, atelecstasis, penumonia |
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| Cardiovascular Complications: 1 |
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| increased incidence od DVTS and PEs |
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| Cardiovascular Complications: 2 |
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| hypercoagulability, venous stasis |
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| Cardiovascular Complications: 3 |
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| Impairs SNS in t1-t4 lesions |
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| hyperinsulemia, insulin resistance |
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| Lack of mobility due to an SCI may lead to what |
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| Flaccid bladder caused by what |
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| Flaccid bladder may lead to what |
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| bladder not contracting to empty |
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| increased tone of detrusor causing incontience |
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