Adult Test 2 (USAHS) UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Adult Test 2 (USAHS) UPDATED Actual
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
About how many new cases a year of a SCI is there? - CORRECT ANSWER- 17,500
About how many people are living with SCI at the moment? - CORRECT ANSWER-
285,000
What are the leading causes of SCI? - CORRECT ANSWER- MVA, foll...
Adult Test 2 (USAHS) UPDATED Actual
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
About how many new cases a year of a SCI is there? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 17,500
About how many people are living with SCI at the moment? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
285,000
What are the leading causes of SCI? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- MVA, followed by falls,
acts of violence and sports
What is the common common SCI injury? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Incomplete
Tetraplegia
Most SCI occur to what population? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Young males
SCI causes a disruption to the what> - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Motor and sensory
pathways at the site of the lesion
How are SCI defined? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- By both the severity and location of the
injury
Neurological level SCI is classified by? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The lowest (most
caudal) level of the spinal cord with normal sensory and motor function bilaterall
When doing ASIA testing you should test? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Both sides all the
way down
ASIA A - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- complete, no sensory or motor function is preserved in
the sacral segments S4-S5
, ASIA B - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Incomplete; sensory but not motor function is
preserved below the neurological level and includes the sacral segments S4-5
ASIA C - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Incomplete; motor function is preserved below the
level of injury with most of the muscle strength <3/5
ASIA D - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Incomplete; motor function is preserved below the
level of injury with most of the muscle strength >3/5
AISA E - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Normal
Tetraplega - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - injury to cervical SC
- Impaired upper extremity function, trunk and lower extremity function
Paraplegia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Impaired lower extremity function and possibly
trunk
Your patient sustained an injury to the central structures of the spinal cord that produces
sacral sensory sparing and greater weakness in the upper limbs than in the lower limbs. What
SCI is this? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Central Cord
Anterior cord syndrome - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Incomplete spinal injury in which all
functions are absent below the level of except proprioception and sensation
Your patient presents with an incomplete spinal cord injury where half of the cord has been
damaged. Exhibit more loss of motor and proprioceptive ipsilateral to injury and loss of pain
and sense of temperature on contralateral side. What SCI is this? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Brown-Seqaurd
Conus Medullaris Syndrome - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Injury to the sacral cord resulting
in flaccid paralysis of the lower extremities
Your patient sustained injury to the lumbar and sacral nerves roots results in flaccid-type
paralysis
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