Signs and Symptoms
What is the most common symptom of a head injury?
Head pain or irritation
How can breathing be kept at normal levels?
Maintain an open airway, and access the victims breathing
What can you access on the skin?
Redness, bleeding, and bruising
What is the most common type of concussion?
What is the common aftermath after hitting your head?
Bleeding, swelling, bruising, and trauma
What are the breaths to compression in water and on land?
Water: two breaths to thirty compression's
Land: Thirty compression's to two breaths
What can you access on the bones?
Fractures, broken bones, and possibly flail in the brain.
Where is the safest place to fall on your cranium?
The frontal bone/forehead
What are some common occurrences after trauma?
Nausea, as well vomiting
What is the first thing to do when someone retains a head injury
Access the area for hazards
What can you access on the brain tissue?
mushiness, sensitivity, memory loss, both short term and long term
What is the most unsafe area to fall on your head?
The occipital bone/ the back of your head
What are some mental symptoms of head trauma? (Mental and Physical).
Decreased level of consciousness, (dloc), confusion, disorientation, and unconsciousness, as well as levels of shock
What is the most important thing to do when dealing with someones head injury?
Contact emergency services
What can you access deformities wise?
irregular cranium shape, swelling in upper areas of the cranium
What is the most lethal area to hit on your cranium
The basilar bone/ the back of your ear
What can happen after a severe head injury?
Blood, or brain membrane exiting through the eyes, nose, ears, and mouth
Concussions near the back of the neck, may cause what?
Spinal injuries, and paralysis
How can you access an unconscious victim in water, that has suffered a head injury?
Double whistle blast, safety jump into water, then after, call for help, tell co worker to grab a spinal board, to barrel procedure, support neck, and contact emergency services
The front of the Cranium