Rehabilitation Sciences 3060A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Action Potential, Functional Skills Qualification, Posterior Communicating Artery
4 Jan 2021
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Define what a stroke is and discuss its epidemiology. Appreciate the various presentations and basic pathology. Review the consequences for patients by discussing selecting impairments (visual, verbal, motor) A clinical syndrome characterized by the sudden development of a persisting focal neurologic deficit that persists for at least 24 hours and is due to an abnormality of the cerebral circulation. If an individual suffers a stroke it is likely that they have more than 1 adverse presentations. Some may be motor movement, sensation, vision, speech. Depends on where in the brain the problem is. Brain is extremely oxygen dependent anything that comprises oxygen getting to the brain can have significant consequences to function. Cerebrovascular accident (cva) development of stroke is unexpected. There are an estimated 62,000 strokes and transient ischemic attacks (tia) that are admitted to emergency departments in canada each year (1 every 9 minutes)
