Brain Fart: Whats the name of this CVA symptom?

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Specializes in Assisted Living, Med-Surg/CVA specialty.

I know a lot of CVA patients have difficulty with the task of reaching for objects, and instead of grabbing the object, they attempt to grab to either side of the object... or when attempting to feed themselves, they may miss their mouths and go to the left or right of their mouth.

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

ohhhhhhhhhhh and I know what your talking about too and I can't think of it now either.

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Specializes in Jack of all trades, and still learning.

Ditto. How frustrating...

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

There's agnosia, when the patient can't recognize an object by touch, hearing or sight.

Apraxia, when the patient can't carry out a learned sequence of movements on command.

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Specializes in Assisted Living, Med-Surg/CVA specialty.

The closest thing I've found is visual hemiparesis, but thats not what I'm looking for. :(

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

are you thinking homonymous hemianopsia? Blindness that occurs in the same visual fields of both eyes?

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

I think it's called spatial sense.

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Specializes in Assisted Living, Med-Surg/CVA specialty.
are you thinking homonymous hemianopsia? Blindness that occurs in the same visual fields of both eyes?

Would that cause a patient to display the symptoms I mentioned earlier?

I had a pt who was admitted with possible CVA and displayed these symptoms tonight, but wasn't doing it this AM.

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

Yes, I believe so.

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Specializes in LTC and MED-SURG.

visual midline shift syndrome?????

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Specializes in neuro, ICU/CCU, tropical medicine.

dysmetria

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.
dysmetria

I think your right. I had to go back to my textbook. I couldn't even find dysmetria. I had to look that up online.

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