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Head Injuries
A combination of multiple injury types are typically involved in combat-related head injuries. Innovations in firearms, has led to new types of brain injuries from which we are able to learn much about how the brain responds to trauma. Traumatic brain injury is physical injury to brain tissue that temporarily or permanently impairs brain function. Initial treatment consists of ensuring a reliab...
متن کاملHead injuries.
In summary, the broad term "head injury" represents a large variety of more specific injuries. In order to anticipate and plan appropriate patient care, nurses need information regarding the cause of injury, the impact site, and the patient's clinical course in addition to current assessment findings. The nurse must also anticipate sequelae from secondary brain injury due to hypoxia, edema, inc...
متن کاملHead injuries in sport.
Injuries to the head and neck are the most frequent catastrophic sports injury, and head injuries are the most common direct athletic cause of death. Although direct compressive forces may injure the brain, neural tissue is particularly susceptible to injury from shearing stresses, which are most likely to occur when rotational forces are applied to the head. The most common athletic head injur...
متن کاملOverview of head injuries.
Serious injury to the head is a national health problem with enormous emotional, fiscal, and physical consequences. For this special issue of PHYSICAL THERAPY, serious head injury is defined as trauma to the head with presumed brain involvement. Complete statistical data about head injury in the United States are not available. In the last decade, two national surveys have been done to determin...
متن کاملHead Injuries and Meningitis.
THE following cases have been selected from the files of the Division of Neuropathology in the University of Toronto to illustrate the types of head injury which may cause death from meningitis. The fatal infection of the meninges may occur at the time of the injury, killing the patient within a few days or weeks of the accident, but its onset may be delayed for years after the head injury. Thr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1177/014107688708000123