The nurse explains that a patient who has been determined to have had a complete stroke as a result of a ruptured vessel in the left hemisphere would be classified as:
1. ischemic, embolic.
2. hemorrhagic, subarachnoid.
3. hemorrhagic, intracerebral.
4. ischemic, thrombotic.
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A ruptured vessel in a hemisphere is an intracerebral hemorrhagic CVA. It is not in the sub-arachnoid space. Ischemic CVAs are due to occluded vessels.
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