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| A coup contusion is most severe when a moving object strikes the stationary head. True or false. |
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| What is a coup contusion? |
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| Direct trauma causes injury at the site of impact, which is termed a coup contusion |
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| What is a contracoup contusion? |
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| deceleration causes injury at a site opposite to the site of impact, which is termed a contrecoup contusion. |
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| When do contra coup injuries most often happen? |
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| When the back of a moving head strikes a fixed, hard object (floor, pavement) |
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| Are subdural bleeds the result of tearing of bridging veins? |
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| Do subdural bleeds often cause increased ICP? |
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| Do subdural bleeds most often happen over the anterior half of the head? |
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| External trauma to the face/scalp is typically associated with lethal brain injury? |
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| What are simple falls associated with? |
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| Where will extracerebral intracrainal hemm be? |
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| epidural, subdural, or SA space |
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| What produces an epidural hemm? |
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| they are assoctiated with a facture of the temp bone and tearing of the Middle Meningeal Artery |
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| What type of Hemm do a majority of shaken babies have? |
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| What type of forces produce a coup-contra coup lesion |
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| Linear acceleration forces |
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| Where do you see gliding contusions? |
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| diffuse axonal injury--axonal damage caused by swelling or frank transection of the fibers. |
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| What causes retraction balls |
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| These are masses caused by DAIs |
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| At what age are cranial sutures completely closed? |
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| What causes Brainstem swelling? |
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| vascular compression, secondary to tonsillar herniation |
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| What is the cause of dealth for people with increased ICP? |
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| compression of vascular supply to vital cardio-resp control centers in the medulla |
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| What are 3 types of traumatic situations leading to primary brain trauma? |
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| closed head injury produced by angular acceleration, basal skull fracture, and extreme hyperextension of the neck. |
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