Trauma Flashcards
External force to any part of the body is termed _____.
Name some ex.’s
Trauma
- Fall
- Gun shots
- stabs
True or false:All trauma injuries are series?
False, but all do tend to cause symptoms such as internal or external bleeding
Head injuries are the leading cause of death in ages ___ to ____.
15 to 40
Name the 2 imaging ways that are the primary ways to differentiate between various types of head injuries
Clinical exam and CT scan
_____ is caused by a severe blow to the head or an accident in which the head shakes roughly
Traumatic brain injury
TBI
____ is a break in the bone without damage to the skin
Simple fracutre
A _____ skull fracture is a break in a cranial bone resembling a thin line, without splintering, depression, or distortion of bone
Linear
A _____ skull fracture is a break in a cranial bone (or “crushed” portion of skull) with depression of the bone in toward the brain
depressed
- requires surgical intervention
- comminuted
A _____ fracture involves a break in, or loss of, skin and splintering of the bone.
Compound
What are the 4 major types of skull fractures
- Linear
- Depressed
- Diastatic
- Basilar
Which skull fracture is the most common
Linear fractures
require no intervention
____ is when the sutures of the skull widen , usually affects children under 3
Diastatic fractures
____ are fractures that occur at the base of the skull
Basilar fractures
Eval criteria for a X-Table lateral skull
Entire cranium without rotation or tilt
▪Superimposed orbital roofs and greater wings of sphenoid
▪Superimposed mastoid regions and EAM
▪Superimposed TMJs
▪Sella turcica seen in profile
▪Radiographic penetration of parietal region
▪No overlap of cervical spine by mandible
____ seen as a curved line extending between the orbits, just above the ethmoidal air cells.
dorsum sellae
Eval criteria for AP skull trauma
▪Entire cranial perimeter showing three distinct areas of squamous bone
▪Equal distance from lateral border of skull to lateral border of orbit on both sides
▪Symmetric petrous ridges
▪Petrous pyramids lying in lower third of orbit with a cephalad central ray angulation of 15 degrees and filling orbits with a 0-degree central ray angulation
▪Penetration of frontal bone without excessive density at lateral borders of skull
the dorsum sellae and posterior clinoid processes projected within the foramen magnum for _____ projection of the skull
AP Axial Townes projection
True or false: petrous ridges should be projected below maxillary sinus for the reverse waters method
True
