Neurological Injuries and Diseases

This neurological injury can occur during violent impacts to the head. 

• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Dementia
• Cerebral Palsy

Your patient is suffering from a TBI and has  nausea and vomiting and slurred speech. You understand this would be classified as a:

• Mild TBI
• Moderate to Severe TBI
• Unknown TBI
• Mild Concussion

Mild TBIs are also known as:

• concussions
• cerebral palsy
• spinal cord injuries
• quadriplegia

This neurological injury is defined as a group of nervous system disorders caused by damage to the brain before or during birth.  

• Cerebral Palsy
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Dementia
• Traumatic Brain Injury

The most common form of CP is:

• spastic
• cyanotic
• seizures
• sarcotic

A patient with a C1-C3 spinal cord injury usually:

• Recovers
• Dies
• Has Full Movement
• Has Paraplegia

Quadriplegia means the patient is paralyzed from 

• the neck down
• the waist down
• only the legs
• isn't paralyzed at all

Spinal cord injuries are:

• always a medical emergency
• a possibility in any head trauma
• a risk in playing contact sports
• all of the statements are true

Your patient arrives complaining of a stiff neck with a headache and fever.  You suspect they may have: 

• meningitis
• multiple sclerosis
• epilepsy
• dementia

Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease in which the body's own immune system destroys the _____________ of the nerve axons. 

• Myelin
• Dendrites
• Axon Terminal
• Nodes of Ranvier