A patient with a severe head injury begins to assume a posture of flexed upper extremities, with plantarflexed lower extremities. What do these assessments indicate?
a. Increasing intracranial pressure (ICP) with decorticate posturing
b. Decreasing ICP with decerebrate postur-ing
c. Decreasing ICP with decorticate posturing
d. Increasing ICP with decerebrate posturing
A
Increasing pressure on the tissue above the midbrain results in abnormal flexion (decorticate posturing).
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