A patient is admitted to the neurological critical care unit with a severe closed head injury. All four extremities are in rigid extension, the forearms are hyperpronated, and the legs are in plantar extension
How should the nurse chart this condition?
a. Decorticate posturing
b. Decerebrate posturing
c. Dystonic posturing
d. Basal ganglion posturing
ANS: B
The description is of a patient in decerebrate posturing. The description provided is not associat-ed with decorticate, dystonic, or basal ganglion posturing.
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