30 minutes, Produced in 2006

Decreased level of consciousness… hemiparesis… severe frontal headache. Serious - and possibly life-threatening - neurologic signs and symptoms such as these require expert assessment skills. And that’s what this DVD provides - along with the nursing interventions needed to ensure optimal patient care.

You’ll learn:

• how shining a penlight into your patient’s eyes can produce both a direct and indirect pupillary reaction
• how to perform motor and sensory testing in a patient who has had a CVA
• why increased ICP can cause the optic disk to swell, resulting in papilledema
• which signs of increased ICP may signal pending brain stem herniation
• how to elicit Brudzinski’s sign and Kernig’s sign - and what these findings mean .....and much, much more.

2006