Head injury

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Mind Map on Head injury, created by Fatima Alkhateeb on 30/09/2018.
Fatima Alkhateeb
Mind Map by Fatima Alkhateeb, updated more than 1 year ago
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Head injury
  1. Anatomy of the brain stem
    1. Consciousness
      1. State of being aware of external stimuli and one’s self.
        1. Regulated by reticular formation
          1. Set of interconnected nuclei within brainstem
            1. ARAS (cholinergic)
              1. DRAS (non-cholinergic
                1. Somatic motor, CVS, pain, consciousness, habituation
            2. Traumatic Brain Injury
              1. Concussion
                1. Can be accompanied with memory loss, altered neurological deficit
                2. Contusion
                  1. Hemorrhages on the surface of the brain
                3. Pathology
                    1. Management of brain injury
                      1. Initial resucitaton
                        1. Postresucitative care
                          1. Treatment of intracranial hypertension
                            1. Treatment and prophylaxis of complications
                        2. osmotic agent
                          1. anti-seizures
                            1. Phenytoin
                            2. Mannitol
                        3. Types of herniation
                          1. subfalcine herniation
                            1. transtentorial herniation
                              1. tonsillar herniation
                                1. transalar herniation
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