Trauma

Question 1

External force to any part of the body is termed _____.

Name some ex.’s

Answer 1

Trauma

1. Fall
2. Gun shots
3. stabs

Question 2

True or false:All trauma injuries are series?

Answer 2

False, but all do tend to cause symptoms such as internal or external bleeding

Question 3

Head injuries are the leading cause of death in ages ___ to ____.

Answer 3

15 to 40

Question 4

Name the 2 imaging ways that are the primary ways to differentiate between various types of head injuries

Answer 4

Clinical exam and CT scan

Question 5

_____ is caused by a severe blow to the head or an accident in which the head shakes roughly

Answer 5

Traumatic brain injury

TBI

Question 6

____ is a break in the bone without damage to the skin

Answer 6

Simple fracutre

Question 7

A _____ skull fracture is a break in a cranial bone resembling a thin line, without splintering, depression, or distortion of bone

Answer 7

Linear

Question 8

A _____ skull fracture is a break in a cranial bone (or “crushed” portion of skull) with depression of the bone in toward the brain

Answer 8

depressed

• requires surgical intervention
• comminuted

Question 9

A _____ fracture involves a break in, or loss of, skin and splintering of the bone.

Answer 9

Compound

Question 10

What are the 4 major types of skull fractures

Answer 10

1. Linear
2. Depressed
3. Diastatic
4. Basilar

Question 11

Which skull fracture is the most common

Answer 11

Linear fractures

require no intervention

Question 12

____ is when the sutures of the skull widen , usually affects children under 3

Answer 12

Diastatic fractures

Question 13

____ are fractures that occur at the base of the skull

Answer 13

Basilar fractures

Question 14

Eval criteria for a X-Table lateral skull

Answer 14

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

Question 15

____ seen as a curved line extending between the orbits, just above the ethmoidal air cells.

Answer 15

dorsum sellae

Question 16

Eval criteria for AP skull trauma

Answer 16

▪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

Question 17

the dorsum sellae and posterior clinoid processes projected within the foramen magnum for _____ projection of the skull

Answer 17

AP Axial Townes projection

Question 18

True or false: petrous ridges should be projected below maxillary sinus for the reverse waters method

Answer 18

True