TBI Q2

What is Post Traumatic Amnesia

The confusion that occurs right after a TBI

What injuries come along with TBI

DAI

What causes DAI

the rapid acceleration and deceleration of the brain

what is anterograde amnesia 

not be able to recall memories after the injury

what is retrograde amnesia

not being able to recall memories from before the injury

what is the GCS score range for a moderate tbi

9-12

what is the GCS score range for a mild tbi

13-15

what is the GCS score range for a severe tbi

3-8

what does the GOAT measure

orientation and new learning

can you see a mild tbi on a ct

no, you would look for confusion following the accident

what is an example of an abi

a stroke or tumor

what does the length of time it takes for them to answer the goat say

how severe their tbi is, the longer it takes the worse the injury is

what is semantic memory

educational and world knowledge 

what is divided attention 

being able to multi task 

what is metacognition

thinking about your own thinking

what is procedural memory

muscle/motor memory

what are important factors when looking at a tbi

-family

-education 

-career biggest concerns  

-age 

-time post onset 

what is prosepctive memory

ability to think about future events

what are some of the executive functions

inhibition, initiation, personality, insight, awareness

signs of overmedication

fatigue

signs of undermedication

seizures

what are some internal strategies 

-association 

-mnemonics

-chunking

-repetition

-visualization 

-rhyming 

-melody 

example of a goal for working memory severe

client will use repetition for working memory 60% of the time with verbal, visual and tactile cues

what are different ways you can categroize things by

function, color, size etc. 

what is the problem solving hierarchy

-identify the problem

-prioritize the problem

-re evaluate the problem 

-formulate solutions 

-analyze solutions 

-re-asses solutions 

what don’t we write goals for

-attention

-speed of processing

-memory

what is the hierarchy of cognition

attention

memory and new learning

organization

higher level processing

• executive function

• metacognition 

what are some external strategies

-memory book

-shrine 

-drawing 

-planner 

-watches 

-cell phones  

-calendar

executive functions

-discuss problem

-direct correlation and experimental feedback

-focus on metacognition

-consider a structured music program

-goal attainment scaling

self awareness

-remind them of tbi go over

-experimental, have them predict performance

-procedural training