TBI Flashcards
initial damage to the brain.
primary injury
hours or days after the primary injury. In adequate delivery of nutrients
secondary
simple abrasion, scalp bleeds profusely, hematoma beneath the layers of the tissue of the scalp
superficial injury
management of a superficial injury
determine degree, clean wound, apply antibiotic cream, ct to rule out fracture, TT may be needed
Lobe? Personality, behavior, emotion, intellectual functions, concentration, judement
frontal
brocas area is where? what is caused there
frontal, language production. (Expressive aphasia)
lobe: sensory area sensory discrimination
parietal
Lobe? Visual reception, visual interpretation
occipital (OH I SEE)
motor coordination equilibrium, balance
cereBELLum. Bella gets me home when I am drunk
hearing, taste smell (TSH), memory
temporal.
which speech area does the temporal lobe have
wernicke’s (receptive aphasia)
breathing, digestion, HR control, vessel control A/O
brain stem
low velocity impact, simple break in continuity, temporal bone meningeal artery tear,
simple or linear skull fracture
underneath what is CSF
dura mater
splinted or multiple line, fragmented interruptions, contaminated and open would debridement and surgical closure
open or comminuted skull fracture
tear to dura, CSF leakage
basal skull fracture
Halo sign
CSF leakage. Blood with yellow ring around it
when leaking blood from the nose, don’t do what?
blow it
battle sign
ecchymosis over the mastoid bone. bulging tempanic membrane, raccoon eyes or periorbital ecchymosis
battle sign is a sign of
basal skull fracture
halo sign is a sign of
basal skull fracture