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Chapter 29- Head and Spine Injuries

Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Twelfth Edition
Horizontales
An accumulation of blood beneath the dura mater but outside the brain.
The inability to remember events leading up to a head injury.
An accumulation of blood between the skull and the dura mater.
Injury to the head often caused by a penetrating object in which there may be bleeding and exposed brain tissue.
The aftereffects of the primary injury; includes abnormal processes such as cerebral edema, increased intracranial pressure, cerebral ischemia and hypoxia, and infection; onset is often delayed following the primary brain injury.
Bleeding into the subarachnoid space, where the cerebrospinal fluid circulates.
Injury in which the brain has been injured but the skin has not been broken and there is no obvious bleeding.
A temporary loss or alteration of part or all of the brain's abilities to function without actual physical damage to the brain.
Actions of the body that are not under a person's conscious control.
An injury to the brain and its associated structures that is a direct result of impact to the head.
Fractures that usually following diffuse impact to the head (eg, falls, motor vehicle crashes); generally result from extension of a linear fracture to the base of the skull and can be difficult to diagnose with a radiograph.
Verticales
Injuries in which load is applied along the vertical or longitudinal axis of the spine, which results in load being transmitted along the entire length of the vertebral column; for example, falling from a height and landing on the feet in an upright position.
Swelling of the brain.
Three distinct layers of tissue that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord within the skull and the spinal canal.
The pressure within the cranial vault.
Bruising behind an ear over the mastoid process that may indicate a skull fracture.
An abnormal breathing pattern associated with increased ICP that is characterized by deep, rapid breathing; this pattern is similar to Kussmaul respirations, but without an acetone breath odor.
A traumatic insult to the brain capable of producing physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and vocational changes.