The doctor would help Mark by taking a full account of what he may require. Most importantly, the doctor would see if there are any sign of brain damage due to his fractured skull as it is a primary injury. This type of fracture often causes pressure on the brain or direct injury to the brain, so the doctor would refer him to Computed tomography (CT) scans of the brain department (that identify skull fractures in about two thirds of head injury patients).…
A traumatic brain injury occurs after some type of damage to the brain. These types of injuries can occur on either side of the brain. The brain has two main sides which…
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an injury to the brain that results from a head…
A secondary injury is a biochemical and cellular response to the primary injury that begins within minutes or hours after the initial damage. This injury harms the tissue that was not involved in the primary injury (Dutton & McCunn, 2003). Moreover, secondary injuries lead to widespread tissue damage and neurological damages by affecting brain oxygenation.…
Coup and countrecoup are classified as primary brain injury that is caused by direct impact and can be focal, affecting one area of the brain, or diffuse, involving more than one area of the brain. A bruise or contusion is caused by force that damages or destroys blood vessels. Coup and contrecoup injuries are contusions that result from a blow to the head, which leads to the brain to slam against the inside of the skull. Furthermore, coup injury is brain contusion that occurs at the point of impact or directly below site of forceful impact and contrecoup injury result when the brain impacts the side of the skull opposite the point of impact. Numerous blows to the head result in damage to the brain on opposite sides of the head. This can be…
This paper reports the findings in the brains of five patients who' survived a closed head injury in a more or less decerebrate and extremely demented state, for five to 15 months. These cases were selected from a series of patients who died after prolonged coma or other severe disturbances of consciousness following head injury. Both clinically and pathologically they form a distinct group. The head injuries were uncomplicated, that is, there were no fractures of the skull, no intracranial haematomata or lacerations of the brain, and in particular there was no evidence of raised intracranial pressure at any time, yet the patients remained quadriparetic and almost totally unresponsive from the time of the accident. Pathologically the main finding,…
A head injury is any sort of injury to your brain, skull, or scalp. This can range from a mild bump or bruise to a traumatic brain injury. Common head injuries include concussions, skull fractures, and scalp wounds. The consequences and treatments vary greatly, depending on what caused your head injury and how severe it is. Head injuries may be either closed or open. A closed head injury is any injury that doesn’t break your skull. An open, or penetrating, head injury is one in which something breaks your skull and enters your brain.…
Kraus, J. F. (1995). Epidemiological features of brain injury in children: Occurrence, children at risk, causes and manner of injury, severity, and outcomes. In S. H. Broman & M. E. Michel (Eds.), Traumatic head injury in children (pp. 22-39). New York: Oxford University Press.…
Explain the difference between a traumatic brain injury and other forms of acquired brain injury.…
A head injury occurs as a result of trauma to the scalp, skull or brain. Head injuries are classified as closed, in which there is no cut or laceration to the skin, or penetrating, in which the skin and/or bone of the skull is broken. Traumatic brain injuries range from mild (called mild traumatic brain injury) to severe.…
The aspect of a healthy brain versus an unhealthy or injured brain is immense, not just in the view of mental interactions but also the physical side of it as well. The picture of the injured brain looks different to the picture of the healthy brain. It looks deformed and also some indications of a subdural hematoma. How this could affect daily life…
Masel, Brent E., Dewitt, Douglas S. "Traumatic Brain Injury: A Disease Process, Not an Event." Journal of Neurotrauma, 27 (2010): 1529-1540. document.…
Head trauma is an injury to the head that may or may not be brain related. The injury can me mild or very severe depending on the cause, head injuries can be causes from a wide variety of accidents or incidents. You can have head trauma from automobile accidents, slips and falls, sport accidents, violent shaking to the head/body (common with babies or small children) assaults or fights, and gunshot injury to the head. Head or brain can be damaged directly by things such as hard blows to the head, or indirectly by things like brain swelling or lack of oxygen. There are four common types of head injuries:…
What is a concussion? A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury or TBI, caused by a sudden jolt, hit or blow to the head. Concussions can also occur from a fall, blow or impact to the body that causes the brain to move quickly back and forth. As a result, the injury changes the way your brain works. There is destruction of the nerves and bruising the brain itself.…
Traumatic Brain Injury is a nondegenerative and noncongenitally insult to the brain from an external mechanical force possibly leading to permanent or temporary impairment of cognitive, physical, and psychosis functions, with an associated diminished or altered state of consciousness. The diagnosis for TBI is often self-evident. Health care providers may use one or more tests that assess a person's physical injuries, brain, nerve functioning, and level of consciousness. The focus is on lifesaving measures. The patient may be on a ventilator and sedated and the evaluation for brain injury will be limited until the patient can emerge from medications and mechanical ventilation. Mild traumatic brain injury may not be diagnosed until the individual…