After diagnostic testing, a patient is diagnosed with areas of cerebral focal infarctions. The nurse realizes that this patient's symptoms will most likely
1. accelerate.
2. extend into the brainstem.
3. resolve with treatment.
4. deteriorate into multiple system organ failure.
3
Rationale: In focal ischemia there is some degree of collateral circulation that remains. This allows for the survival of neurons and for reversal of neuronal damage after periods of ischemia. Focal ischemia is treatable because of the potential for recovery therefore the patient's symptoms will most likely resolve with treatment. The patient's symptoms will not accelerate, extend into the brainstem, nor deteriorate into multiple organ system failure.
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