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Penumbra Salvageable tissue
-oxygen
-blood pressure
-Glucose
Perfusion What oxygen delivers to the brain.
Above the necklace-Anterior Unilateral deficits
Circulation=
Below the necklace-Posterior Bilateral deficits
circulation=
Circle of Willis-Collateral Aneurysm
circulation=
Cerebrum largest part of the brain
Cerebrum: Frontal Lobe Motor function, personality, Brocca speech
Brocca's aphasia-frontal lobe problem with the production and grammar
speech syntax, people know what they want to
say but they cant produce the words.
,temporal lobe Seizure, Wernicke speech, hearing
Wernicke's aphasia (receptive impaired auditory reception; speech may be
aphasia)-temporal lobe fluent but is often meaningless or nonsensical
parietal lobe sensory input for touch and body position-
neglect
-teach patient to scan the room
occipital lobe vision
basal ganglia Hypertensive bleed
Thalamus sensory switchboard, located on top of the
brainstem;
-Patient waxing and waning
-Patient asleep/awake
-Thalamic pain syndrome
thalamic pain syndrome a condition caused by damage to the thalamus
resulting in burning or tingling sensations and
possibly hypersensitivity to things that would not
normally be painful such as light touch or
temperature change
Cerebellum Balance and coordination
, Left (Dominant) Hemisphere Stroke -Left gaze preference (looks toward stroke area)
-Right hononomous hemianopia
-Right hemiparesis
-Right hemisensory loss
-Aphasia
Right (Nondominant) Hemisphere -Right gaze preference
Stroke -Left hononomous hemianopia
-Left hemiparesis, plegia
-Left hemisensory loss
*Neglect-left
*Agnosia (failure to recognize objects)
Posterior circulating stroke Wallenburg (Medulla)
syndromes= Horner's Syndrome
Wallenberg syndrome Nystagmus, Vertigo
Horner's syndrome ipsilateral ptosis
miosis
anhidrosis
Ipsilateral on the same side of the body
Contralateral on the opposite side of the body
Miosis constricted pupils
anhidrosis absence of sweating