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On every stroke call, that seems to you to be a stroke when you arrive, do you always do a entire nuero assessment. Check all 12 cranial nerves, visual acuity, fine motor control etc.?
Our instructor wants us to be able to do a differential field diagnosis for left, right or cerebellar stroke.
I have been on just one stroke call with a paramedic, the only test he did was arm drift. He didn't even ask the pt to recite, "you can't teach an old dog new tricks".
A proper stroke assessment shouldn't take more than 1 minute or 2 at most, but if you are wrong then that is an extra 1 or 2 minutes you could have had.
I also think it is neat, how if someone can't move their arm due to stroke, that when you ask them to move it, they think they are moving it and don't realize they are not.
Its getting harder in class :wacko:
Our instructor wants us to be able to do a differential field diagnosis for left, right or cerebellar stroke.
I have been on just one stroke call with a paramedic, the only test he did was arm drift. He didn't even ask the pt to recite, "you can't teach an old dog new tricks".
A proper stroke assessment shouldn't take more than 1 minute or 2 at most, but if you are wrong then that is an extra 1 or 2 minutes you could have had.
I also think it is neat, how if someone can't move their arm due to stroke, that when you ask them to move it, they think they are moving it and don't realize they are not.
Its getting harder in class :wacko:
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