What kind of stroke is sometimes called an occlusive stroke and results from loss of blood supply to an area due to blockage or diminished blood pressure?
Ischemic CVA
Deprivation for more than ________ minutes results in permanent damage.
3 to 5
What type of strokes occur in larger arteries typically in an area of increased turbulence (bends & bifurcations) where debris in the bloodstream tends to accumulate?
Thrombotic CVA
Term for narrowing
Stenosis
Open passageway in a blood vessel
Lumen
Blood clot that forms where fatty arteriosclerotic deposits have narrowed the lumen of the artery
Thrombus
What does F.A.S.T. stand for?
Face
Arm
Speech
Time
What is inferred from the progression of clinical symptoms?
Differentiation
Which type of CVA has more of a gradual onset that tend to develop in an irregular "step-wise" progression of symptoms sometimes preceded by transient periods of ischemia (small strokes)?
Thrombotic CVA
What type of strokes are caused by a fragment of material from a remote site that travels through the circulatory system until it reaches an artery smaller than its own diameter where it lodges, occluding the artery?
Embolic CVAs
Which type of CVA has a sudden onset and warning sighns may be absent or almost undetectable?
Embolic CVAs
Area of damaged, necrotic tissue
Infarct / Lesion
Tissue that has died & is no longer viable
Necrose
What's the name of the CVA that is applied when it can't be determined whether the cause is thrombotic or embolic (embolus lodges in an artery narrowed by a thrombus)?
Thromboembolic CVA
Lack of oxygen in tissues that affect functioning ("Hungry")
Ischemia (mini strokes)
Brief period of diminished blood supply due to either a small embolus lodged temporarily or vasoconstriction of a thrombotic vessel that resolves completely w/in a few minutes-24 hrs.
Transient Ischemic Attacks (TIA)
TIA that lasts 24 to 72 hours but symptoms completely resolve
Reversible Ischemic Neurological Deficit (RIND)
TIA that lasts 24 hours to 7 days where symptoms only partially resolve