Nursing HDP401 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Middle Cerebral Artery, Anterior Cerebral Artery, Posterior Cerebral Artery

• School: Seneca College
• Department: Nursing
• Course: Nursing HDP401
• Professor: martingalloway

Document Summary

Cerebral blood flow: anterior cerebral artery supplies, anterior frontal lobe, higher cortex function (personality, reason, and judgement, medial and superior aspects of posterior frontal lobe. Includes motor control over lower body: medial and superior aspects of the anterior parietal lobe. Including somatosensory cortex of the lower body: posterior cerebral artery, occipital lobe. Cerebral vascular occlusive disease: many vascular pathologies that can cause focal ischemia and infarction of brain, including. As an aneurysm enlarges it occupies space in which increased icp: altered flow increase the risk of thromboembolism. If they rupture then there will be blood loss and severe cerebral ischemia and development of large volume hematomas (esp. in subarachnoid space: quickly raise icp and start large scale inflation. Cva (cerebral vascular accident: also known as stroke describes the neurological deficits these processes produce, cva"s are a (cid:373)ajor (cid:272)ause of death a(cid:374)d per(cid:373)a(cid:374)e(cid:374)t fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) defi(cid:272)it, non-modifiable risk factors.