All About the Brain!
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- 3. Scale predicting disability after stroke
- 5. Mechanical removal of a cerebral clot
- 7. Time is...
- 9. Assesses reperfusion after mechanical thrombectomy
- 11. Patients with a SAH are at highest risk for this within 14-21 days after onset
- 14. Recombinant fibrinolytic dosed at 0.9 mg/kg (max 90 mg) with a 10% bolus and 60-minute infusion
- 16. Stroke severity scale used in the ED
- 17. Neurosurgical procedure in SAH patients that is preferred...
- 19. Calcium channel blocker used to prevent vasospasm after SAH
- 21. Reversal agent being pulled from the market by FDA
- 22. stroke related death occurs every...
- 23. Score assessing early ischemic changes on CT
- 24. Transient neurologic deficit without infarction
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- 1. scale with limited visual examination
- 2. Score predicting 30-day mortality in intracerebral hemorrhage
- 4. Something ID in nature that is an absolute contraindication for thrombolytic
- 6. Thrombolytic with a longer half-life and single bolus dosing
- 8. signs/symptoms of a stroke
- 10. Interruption of cerebral blood flow leading to tissue infarction
- 12. Most common cause of traumatic brain injury in older adults
- 13. First imaging study to rule out hemorrhage before thrombolytics
- 15. Hyperosmolar agent that can crystallize at room temperature
- 18. Dihydropyridine calcium-channel blocker titrated by 5 mg/hr IV for BP control.
- 20. Anticoagulant reversal agent for dabigatran