General
Specific Warning sign within the first 24 hours of a head injury to be aware of.
What is...
Patient LOC (drowsiness, difficulty to arouse, or have confusion)
(3) Diagnoses of scalp injury
What is physical examination, inspection, and palpation.
Break in the continuity of the bone
What is a linear (simple) fracture?
Bruised brain
What is a contusion
Responsible for balance
What is cerebellum?
4 Traumatic brain injury symptoms.
What is...
Headache
Neck stiffness
Confusion
Drowsiness
N/V, Projectile vomiting
Slurred speech
Visual problems
Pupils that are slow to react or not equal in size
Bleeding or water drainage from nose and ears
Loss sensation to any extremity
Seizure
Coma
Scalp injury has a very high risk for....
What is infection?
Suggestive of skull fracture
What is persistent, localized pain.
Brief loss of consciousness followed by lucid interval
What is epidural hematoma?
Difficulty with vision
What is a occipital lobe injury?
How to decrease the risk of brain herniation?
What is controlling the pressure (ICP)?
Scalp injury that is life threatening and a true emergency.
What is avulsion (tearing away)
Needs surgery to elevated the skull and debridement, within 24 hours
What is depressed skull fracture?
Important cause of stroke that is a neurological emergency
What is subarchnoid hemorrhage?
Difficulty hearing
What is temporal lobe injury?
3 thing that would contribute to inadequate delivery of nutrients and oxygen to cells in the secondary injury.
What is....
Cerebral edema (swelling of the brain)
Intracranial hypertension
Hyperemia (excessive blood in the vessels)
Seizures
Vasospasms
Isolated scalp trauma (what type of injury)
What is a minor injury?
Suspected when there is CSF otorrhea and rhinorrhea
What is basal skull fracture?
A bone flapped that is created, removed, and later reattached
What is craniotomy?
Tactile dysfunction
What is parietal lobe injury?
3 Common causes of brain herniation
What is brain swelling, brain bleeding, and brain tumor?
How should scalp wounds be cleaned?
What is irrigation before laceration is sutured to remove foreign material to reduce the risk of infection.
Open, frontal, comminuted fracture
What is a scalp laceration (or tear in dura), splintered (or multiple fracture line), on the frontal lobe fracture.
Brain shifts rapidly inside the skull. If associated with prolonged traumatic coma, decorticate/decerebrate posturing and global cerebral edema can occur.
Since the head injury, Joy has had difficulty planning simple task and implementing them.
What is a frontal lobe injury?