Neurology Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• endovascular : this type of embolectomy removes blood clots inside the brain, uses a catheter inserted through femoral artery and maneuver a device up to the brain
• fast : spotting a stroke, face drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulties, time to call 911
• agnosia : inability to recognize objects, smells or sounds despite normally functioning senses
• ischemic : stroke from deficient blood flow to brain from a partial or complete occlusion of artery, thrombotic and embolic, account for 87% of strokes
• apraxia : inability to perform learned (familiar) movements on command
• thrombolytics : acute ischemic stroke may benefit from this type of med, different ones are tissue plasminogen activator (tpa) and alteplace (activase)
• unilateral neglect : cant see, feel it, doesnt exist
• embolic : second most common cause of ischemic stroke, seen usually in younger patients, travels upward to cerebral circulation and lodges in vessel
• thrombotic : most common cause of ischemic stroke, seen most often in 60-90 y/o, usually occur in large vessels like internal carotid arteries, especially near atheroscleric plaques in blood vessels
• hemorrhagic : stroke from bleeding into brain tissue, account for 15% of strokes, pts often present with increased intracranial pressure (iicp) d/t hemorrhage compressing surrounding brain tissue