Chapter 9 Flashcards
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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
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(cerebral concussion)
-signs/symps: headache, nausea, vomiting, and sleepiness
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Second Impact Syndrome
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- athlete’s brain rapidly swells, bleeds significantly, and herniates due to a 2nd cerebral concussion
- life threatening
3
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Cerebral Contusion
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- (Intracerebral Bleeding) brain is bruised, intracerebral bleeding occurs, and blood leaks into the brain tissue
- caused by blow to head
4
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Epidural Hematoma
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traumatic brain injury that occurs when artery or vein is damaged and blood accumulates between the skull and dura mater (above)
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Subdural Hematoma
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- rapid accumulation of blood on the brain caused by serious or very mild trauma (below)
- acute v chronic: speed of blood filling brain
6
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skull fracture
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- Simple, linear, depressed, and compound
- Caused by significant blow to head
- Signs/symps: deformity, external head bleeding, clear fluid mixed w/ blood coming out of ear or nose
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Facial Fractures: Zygomatic, Maxilla, and Mandible
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- Occur due to direct, traumatic impact to the face
- signs and symps: pain, deformity, ecchymosis, swelling, inward depression of bone, and lacerations
8
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orbital fracture
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- Caused by a direct blow to eye
- Signs/symps: sunken or bulging eye, inability to look in various directions, blurred vision, swelling, deformity, raccoon eyes, and bleeding
9
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hyphema
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- Blood that accumulates in anterior chamber of eye
- Caused by a direct blow to the eye
- Signs/symps: blood accumulating in eye’s anterior chamber, pain, light sensitivity, and blurred vision
10
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Conjunctivitis
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- “pink eye”; inflammation of the lining of the eye
- caused by viral infection, bacteria, fungi, allergies, chemicals, and contact lenses
- Signs/symps: redness, pink color in eye’s sclera, itching, pain, blurred vision, sensitivity to light, and significant eye discharge
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Tympanic Membrane (Eardrum) Rupture
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- Perforation in tissue caused by direct blow to the ear, infection, foreign object, a pressure change, or extremely loud noise
- signs/symps: visible hole, hearing difficulty/loss, discomfort/pain, and possible leakage of fluid, pus, or blood
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Auricular Hematoma (Cauliflower Ear)
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- Outer ear cartilage deformity
- Due to constant friction or direct, blunt trauma
- signs/symps: pain, tinnitus, hearing loss, visual disturbances, headache, cauliflower deformation appearance, warmth, and swelling
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Otitis Externa (Swimmer’s Ear)
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- infection of outer ear canal
- water remains in outer ear canal after bathing or swimming
- sits in the canal and bacteria grow
- signs/symps: itching, mild discomfort, redness of outer ear canal and possibly a slight discharge
14
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Otitis Media (Middle Ear Infection)
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- bacteria or viruses trapped in middle ear
- signs/symps: pain, sore throat, fluid drainage from ear, muffled hearing, difficulty sleeping, and low-grade fever
- Usually heal without treatment
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nose fracture
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- possible head/neck injury
- Caused by blunt force trauma
- signs/symps: pain, difficulty breathing, epistaxis, deformity, point tenderness, and swelling
