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