occipital lobe
visual processing
parietal lobe
receives sensory input for touch and body position
temportal lobe
sense of hearing, smell, memory, thought, and judgment
frontal lobe
associated with reasoning, planning, parts of speech, movement, emotions, and problem solving
IV phenytoin
Mix with normal saline; can cause hypotension and bradycardia
Symptoms of temporal arteritis
Weight loss, night sweats, aching joints, and fever are classic systemic symptoms
Epidural hematoma presentation
Transient loss of consciousness from injury,
then lucid period
, then increasing drowsiness, HA, and unilateral contralateral weakness
Steroids for Spinal Cord Injury
Start within 8 hours of injury
30mg/kg over 15 min; wait 45 min, then 5.4mg/kg/hr over next 23 hours