Introduction to Trauma Radiography.
Trauma is mechanical damage to the body caused by an external force. The trauma patient has been defined as “an injured person who requires timely diagnosis and treatment of actual or potential injuries by a multidisciplinary team of health care professionals, support by the appropriate resources, to diminish or eliminate the risk of the death or permanent disability.” Trauma can occur as a result of a blunt, penetrating, or thermal mechanism. (Peitzman, Rhodes, Schwab, 2008).
In the United States, trauma is the fifth leading cause of death and patients between 1 and 44 years of age is the leading source of mortality. Trauma can be classified into specific injury patterns such as age and genders. While the
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The classification of TBI divided into primary and secondary injuries. Primary injuries are the direct result that have already occurred to the head by the time the patient first present for medical attention whereas secondary injuries can be preventable and it arises as complications of primary injuries (Le and Gean, 2006). TBI also divided into location (intra- or extra-axial), mechanism (penetrating/open or blunt/closed), and clinical severity (minor, mild, moderate, or severe) (Le and Gean, 2006).
In Le and Gean study, the Glasgow Coma Scale (minor: GCS _ 15; mild: GCS _ 13; moderate: 9 _ GCS _ 12; severe: 3 _ GCS _ 8) is used to rule out the severity of head injury. Epidural, subdural, subarachnoid, and intraventricular hemorrhage are primary extra-axial injuries whereas primary intra-axial lesions include cortical contusions, intracerebral hematomas, axonal shearing injuries, gray matter injury, and vascular injury. Acute and subacute secondary injuries include cerebral edema, ischemia, and brain herniation. Hydrocephalus, the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak, leptomeningeal cyst, and encephalomalacia are chronic secondary
The main argument that is made in this article is the fact that this injury is a serious issue that attention needs to be brought to in order to better help, treat, and prevent head traumas in athletes. Throughout this article, Eckhart concludes that a huge contribution
Terri Allen Professor Roddy English 1302 17 October 2016 Annotated Bibliography Apps, Jennifer N, and Kevin D. Walter. Pediatric and Adolescent Concussion: Diagnosis, Management, and Outcomes. New York, NY, Springer, http://0-link.springer.com.librus.hccs.edu/book/10.1007%2F978-0-387-89545-1. Jennifer Apps is a pediatric neuropsychologist and assistant director of research in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
• The readings this week address the issues of introducing trauma informed care principles into the screening (experienced by every client in every service area) and inpatient settings. 1) Please discuss how trauma informed principals can change these settings for the better and provide examples from your experience as to either how TIC principals work or about situations where they might improve the setting and treatment. Trauma informed principals can change the way screening is done in an inpatient setting by many professionals integrating trauma principals into their practice. Awareness of how traumatic experiences are for many individuals and in findings that many of the individual carry unrecognized trauma.
People cannot diagnose CTE until an autopsy has taken place, and they diagnose it with Tau protein. CTE is believed to have four stages that affect the human body. These stages are dangerous because many victims think it’s normal aging, and then they catch it too late (“What is CTE”). The first stage might not come until months to years after the head trauma. This stage includes bad headaches and
Severe concussions, and the incident of one receiving multiple concussions, is characterized as
Short: Concussions and neurodegenerative conditions Descriptive: Modern studies point the link between concussions and the development of neurodegenerative conditions Summary: People who experience a concussion encounter problems with memory and concentration during the whole life. Recent studies confirm that concussions can lead to development of neurodegenerative conditions, such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease later in life. Injuries of the nervous system are of great importance. They are common in war, but also in peacetime, particularly because of the large number of road accidents and accidents at work nowadays. A concussion is a minor brain injury caused by mechanical forces that lead to temporary brain dysfunction.
We know everything about brain injuries and can come to a harmonious conclusion about them? Well, not exactly, there are a number of questions that still remain, even after thorough research. Does a single concussion or multiple concussions increase the risk of developing CTE or any brain disease, or is it more about the force of the blows? Does a single concussion that overlaps other concussions or separate concussions result in permanent brain damage kind of like those of which have diseases like Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases? Is there a certain amount of hits you can take to the head, or concussions, that could put you at higher risk of developing CTE?
A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury (TBI) that is often caused by a blow to the head or when the head and upper body are violently shaken (Edwards & Bodle, 2014). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is estimated that about 75% of the 1.7 million TBIs that occur annually in the United States are mild TBIs or concussions. The number of emergency department visits for sports and recreation-related concussion has significantly increased by 60% over the past decade. The effects of concussions can be divided into short term, mid-term, and long-term. The short term consequences include various neurologic and cognitive symptoms, but are typically self-limited and resolved with plentiful rest.
ConcussionTreatment.com defines a concussion as “a complex pathophysiological
Then there are also primary injuries and secondary injuries. Primary injuries are the injuries that happen right away (scientificamaerica). Then the secondary injuries are the injuries that could come later in life (scientificamerica). Physicians pay close attention to the secondary injuries because of the tissue damage (scientificamerica). Because secondary tissue effects are the beginning of long term effects like psychosocial changes, behavioral changes, emotional changes, bodily damage, brain damage, etc…
Once you experience experience a serious trauma, it is safe to be under the best care for yourself, and to be cautious at all
More now than before, athletes are being extremely cautious when there is trauma to the brain. After multiple cases of poor treatment, parents and doctors are taking control of an epidemic of untreated concussions. As more studies advance, it is discovered that every case is different. The range of seriousness is created by severity, past experience with trauma, and how the patient heals. Concussions in sports can range in severity, and how they affect each individual over time depending on times of impact.
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Some are directly with how it affects the children and others is the statistics with purely football and concussions. When dealing with head injuries, “. “In head injuries, these regions are particularly susceptible to damage, partly because of where they reside in the brain”