Epidemiology and Location
Executive functioning is controlled by this lobe of the brain.
What is the frontal lobe?
CCC
What is Coup - Contrecoup?
This structure is composed of cell bodies mainly in the midbrain that projects to widespread areas of the cerebral cortex via both thalamic and extra-thalamic pathways and controls consciousness and arousal level.
What is the ascending reticular activating system?
Inter-cranial pressure levels up to mm Hg considered harmless.
What is 15 mm hg?
This was the most common cause of death and injury in automobile accidents in 1990.
What is ejection of the occupant from the vehicle?
This primary injury is defined as immediate disruption of the axons due to acceleration-deceleration and rotational forces that cause shearing upon impact.
What is diffuse axonal injury?
PTA
What is Post Traumatic Amnesia?
A patient with a recent TBI has eyes closed without spontaneous purposeful movement and on EEG does not have sleep wake cycles. She is in this type of disorders of consciousness.
What is coma?
These are two ways to decrease intracranial pressure.
What are elevation of head of bed 30 degrees, osmotic agents, diuretics, hypertonic solutions, hyperventilation, neurosurgical decompression, and hypothermia.
This substance is detected in the majority of TBI patients at the time of accident.
What is alcohol?
This term describes when a lesion/damage in one region of the CNS can produce altered function in other areas of the brain not damaged or connected to the primary injury site.
What is diaschisis?
CDC
What is Center for Disease Control?
This term describes when functions are taken over by brain areas that did not originally manage those functions.
What is vicariation?
This sport has the highest rate of concussion.
What is football?
The lobe of the brain responsible for memory.
What is the temporal lobe?
The number of times more likely that a child with a brain injury will have another occurrence.
What is 2X as likely?
GCS
What is Glasgow Coma Scale?
A 34 year old male had a non-traumatic brain injury 6 weeks ago. For the last 5 weeks, he has had sleep-wake cycles on EEG, but does not have awareness of self or environment. This is referred to as this type of disorder of consciousness, and abbreviated PVS.
What is persistent vegetative state?
The percentage of children who have experienced a probable TBI and will become depressed.
What is 40%?
This is the overall male to female incidence ratio for TBI.
What is 2-2.5:1?
This bone-artery combination is involved in 90% of epidural hematomas.
What is temporal bone - middle meningeal artery?
DAI.
What is Diffuse Axonal Injury?
The cranial nerve most commonly injured in TBI.
I (Olfactory), III (Oculomotor), IV (Trochlear), VI (Abducens), VII (Facial)
The "silent epidemic."
What is TBI?