MOI
This type of impact often causes whiplash injuries.
What is rear-end?
The most common sign/symptom of internal bleeding.
What is pain?
This type of TBI involves arterial bleeding within the cranium.
What is epidural hematoma?
What is a hangman's fx?
No eye opening, no verbal response, no motor response.
What is 3
These type of blast injuries are caused by the patient being thrown by the force of the explosion.
This component of blood is essential for the formation of clots.
What are platelets?
This superior lobe of the cerebrum is located directly posterior to the frontal lobe.
What is the parietal lobe?
A type of incomplete fracture that occurs primarily in children.
What is a greenstick fracture?
Eyes open spontaneously, confused, obeys commands.
What is 14
This organ is most susceptible to primary blast injuries.
What is the ear?
This wound is cause by friction removing the superficial layer of skin.
What is an abrasion?
A common complication from frontal impacts, this injury damages both the frontal and occipital lobes.
What is coup-contracoup?
The direction of leg rotation due to a proximal femoral head fracture.
What is external?
Eyes open to pain, incomprehensible moaning, decorticate posturing.
What is 7
What is 20 ft?
The term for black, foul-smelling digested blood.
What is melena?
This is defined as the inability to remember events after an injury has occurred.
What is anterograde amnesia?
Another name for the bones in fingers and toes.
What are phalanges?
Eyes open to pain, inappropriate words, withdraws from pain.
What is 9
When considering the various collisions involved in an MVA, this collision occurs when the patient's body strikes the inside of the vehicle.
What is the second collision?
Bruising around the umbilicus is also known as this.
What is Cullen's sign?
The middle layer of the meninges.
What is the arachnoid layer?
The three types of muscle found in the body.
What are skeletal, smooth, and cardiac?
Eyes open to pain, no verbal response, decerebrate posturing.
What is 5