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ABC of major trauma. Head injuries--II.
* Confusion or any other depression of consciousness at the time of the examination * Skull fracture * Neurological symptoms or signs, or both * Difficulty in assessing the patient-for example, because of ingestion of alcohol, epilepsy, or other medical conditions that cloud consciousness; children are also difficult to assess * Lack of a responsible adult to supervise the patient and other soc...
متن کاملABC of major trauma. Blast and gunshot injuries.
Doctors and nurses treating patients who have blast or gunshot injuries should remember that in nearly all cases there will be forensic or medicolegal consequences and that, although patient care is of prime importance, they have certain duties to record information with these consequences in mind. Such information may be required in subsequent legal prosecution or to help the victims to obtain...
متن کاملABC of child abuse. Head injuries.
Head injuries with or without fracture ofthe skull feed. Serious intracranial injury is extremely are the commonest cause ofdeath from battering, unlikely. but abdominal injury to the gut or solid organs The force entailed in physical abuse-for can mimic the signs ofhead injury and can lead to example, in swinging the child, in violent death if they are unrecognised. uncontrolled shaking, and i...
متن کاملABC of major trauma. Trauma of the spine and spinal cord--I.
Any 14 Cervical spine 40 Thoracic spine 10 Thoracolumbar junction 35 Lumbar spine 3 A patient with serious multiple injuries is rarely able to provide a coherent history. Injuries that carry a risk of death or severe disability must, therefore, be suspected from the outset so that correct early management can be instituted. Any patient with trauma who is not fully conscious should be assumed to...
متن کاملABC of major trauma. Trauma of the lower urinary tract.
Mechanism of direct blunt renal trauma. An external force (F,) may crush the kidney (K) between the 12th rib and the vertebral column, or a force (F2) may crush the kidney against the paravertebral muscles (quadratus lumborum (QL) or psoas major (in position P but deleted from diagram). In the United Kingdom over 90% of renal injuries are a result of blunt abdominal trauma. Important associated...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.300.6738.1515