Head trauma

Question 1

clinical syndrome characterized by an immediate and transient alt. in brain function

Answer 1

concussion

Question 2

sympt. :
- headache
- dizziness
- nausea
- dysequilibrium
- fatigue
- impaired memory
- irritability

How long can this last?

Answer 2

Post-concussive syndrome

• can last for weeks or months after a concussion

Question 3

coup contusion

Answer 3

site of impact is directly ove contusion

Question 4

contracoup contusion

Answer 4

site of impact is on the opposite of the head

Question 5

designed to studies in trauma patients to see what is their prognosis

worst score?

Answer 5

glasgow coma score

• 3

Question 6

most common hernition

Answer 6

that of the frontal lobe

Question 7

fatal consequence of severe midline shift or tentorial herniation is

Answer 7

hemorrhagic infarcts in the midbrain

Question 8

mickey mouse bump

Answer 8

cephalohematoma

Question 9

left meningoceal cyst

Answer 9

growing skull fracture

Question 10

battle’s sign

Answer 10

hit head and get a temporal one fracture

Blood tends to pool behind the ear

Question 11

Raccon eye

Answer 11

anterior skull cr=facture[[

Question 12

diffuse axonal injry

Answer 12

injury that often causes pt. to never wakes up from coma

no repair by surgical procedures

Question 13

retinal hemorrhage in a baby

Answer 13

not usually an accident

Question 14

ventriculostomy

Answer 14

drainage of CSF

Question 15

mannitol

Answer 15

osmotic diuretics