Nasal Trauma

Question 1

What should be excluded with nasal trauma

Answer 1

Question 2

What are the complications of nasal trauma?

Answer 2

Epistaxis

csf/ meningitis

anosmia if cribiform plate is fractured

Question 3

Management of nasal fracture

Answer 3

Manipulation with or without analgesia

or

nothing

Question 4

Treatment of pinna haematoma

Answer 4

Aspirate

or

incision and drain

then

pressure bandages

Question 5

What is this sign called and what does it indicate?

Answer 5

Battle’s sign

indicates posterior fossa fracture

Question 6

What can cause conductive hearing loss?

Answer 6

Fluid- Effusion, blood, CSF

tympanic membrane perforation

ossicular problems

stapes fixation- otosclerosis

Question 7

What are the injury zones for the neck?

Damage to which zone has the highest mortality rate?

Answer 7

Zone 1

Question 8

Management for fractured facial Buttress

Answer 8

Reduction and fixation

Question 9

Where is the weak point of the orbit?

Answer 9

The infraorbital groove