CBIS Exam Study Guide: Key Concepts and Definitions, Exams of Medicine

This study guide provides key concepts and definitions relevant to the cbis (certified brain injury specialist) exam. It covers a range of topics including secondary causes of sexual dysfunction, stages of case management, cognitive rehabilitation principles, acute and post-acute measures, and legal aspects such as the rehabilitation act of 1973 and ieps. The guide also addresses various conditions and disorders related to brain injuries, such as mtbi, cte, and disorders of consciousness, along with their management and related issues.

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CBIS Exam Study Guide
Secondary causes of sexual dysfunction - Correct Answer ✔️✔
Physical- spasticity and ataxia; cognitive- attention, memory;
emotional and behavioral- depression and apathy; other- marital
dysfunction and social isolation
1st stage of Case Management - Correct Answer ✔️✔
Assessment
Life care plan should meet certain criteria including - Correct Answer
✔️✔️Be specific about expected needs over a lifetime; reflect
understanding of injuries and disabilities; consider complications;
include short and long term goals
Cognitive rehabilitation principles - Correct Answer ✔️✔
Neuroplasticity and adapability
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Secondary causes of sexual dysfunction - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Physical- spasticity and ataxia; cognitive- attention, memory; emotional and behavioral- depression and apathy; other- marital dysfunction and social isolation 1st stage of Case Management - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Assessment

Life care plan should meet certain criteria including - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Be specific about expected needs over a lifetime; reflect understanding of injuries and disabilities; consider complications; include short and long term goals Cognitive rehabilitation principles - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Neuroplasticity and adapability

Acute measures - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ FIM; FAM; disabilty rating scale; the rancho los amigos level of cognitive functioning scale Post-acute measures - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Craig handicap assesment and reporting technique(CHART); Mayo-Portland Adaptability Inventory; the participation assessment with recombined tools objective The rehabilitation act of 1973 as amended in 1998 - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Provides federal grants for Vocational Rehabilitation to people with disabilities Exploitation - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ The illegal use of a dependent individual's property or expenditure of funds without the consent of the individual IEP - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ A legal plan developed by special ed team including parents specifying goals based on assessment

dissatisfaction; low economic status; less education; lack of close personal relationships Seizures become medical emergencies when - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ They last longer than 5 minutes Synaptogenesis - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ The greater the numbers of synaspes within a grouping of neurons the greater the speed and efficiency with which those neurons communicate Dementia - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Must be coupled with a functional limitation in everyday life due to the cognitive change PPCS - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Always includes neuropsychological assessment, psychiatric history, psychological response to previous injuries, available support system, and current coping skills Disorders of consciousness - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Coma, vegetative, persistent vegetative, minimally conscious MTBI represents - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 75% of all TBIs in the US

MTBI symptoms resolve... - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Most symptoms resolve in 2-4 weeks CTE - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ A rare progressive degenerative condition of the central nervous system. Diffuse axonal injury causes release of tau proteins. Blood Brain Barrier - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ At the vascular level harmful substances cannot pass through the membrane to harm the brain and it has its own glial cells that serve as its own immune defense and garbage disposal Aspiration - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Food, liquid, or vomit inhaled into thw lungs can result in pneumonia or other respiratory infections Pressure Sores - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Caused by inadequate pressure relief, prolonged positioning on one's side or buttocks, shearing of skin, casts, infections, incontinence, and poor nutrition

Domains of cognitive functioning hierarchy - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Attention Categorization Memory Processing speed Executive functions Metacognition Problems with metacognition affect - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Your ability to self-monitor and use thoughts to change or improve thinking and behavior coma-emergent - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Do not use consequence based programming; medication, controlling the environment, providing structure, educate family

Intermittent reinforcement - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ A particular response sometimes produces reinforcer; examples hourly pay and slot machines Substance use disorder SUD - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 10% population diagnosed Substance misuse addressed by screening and brief interventions in acute or primary care settings - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Low severity TBI and low severity SUD Power of attorney - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ A document in which a competent person appoints another person to act for them; Broad or limited powers; may be durable; may be revoked by a guardian; medical or financial; Moral model/Religious Model - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Disability is a sin, evil, or character flaw

IEP transition plan - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ To address life after high school; post secondary education; vocational training; employment; adult services; living arrangements; community participation Family reports of post-injury changes to include - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Changes in mood and emotional health; unequal sharing of household responibilities and lack of resources to combat BI related complications Parents of individuals with BI report... - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Significantly higher rates of stress Culture - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Any group that shares a theme or set of issues; can entail social mores and historical traditions and beliefs passed down from generation to generation