CBIS Exam Prep (Terms and Other Important Info from The Essential Brain Injury Guide Edition 5.0)

lost productivity - Correct Answer one measure of the cost to society due to injury or disease; includes the loss of wages a person would have earned if they had not become unemployable due to disability, loss of taxes contributing to economy, costs to the government of supporting the individual, etc.; lost productivity costs DO NOT include cost of treatment and support post-injury or illness acquired brain injury (ABI) - Correct Answer An injury to the brain that is not hereditary, congenital, degenerative, or induced by birth trauma traumatic brain injury (TBI) - Correct Answer an alteration in brain function, or other evidence of brain pathology, caused by an external force traumatic impact - Correct Answer injuries resulting from contact (when head is struck by or against an object) traumatic intertial injuries - Correct Answer injury to the brain not caused by impact but as a result of inertial forces, such as acceleration-deceleration forces closed injuries - Correct Answer injury to the brain resulting in brain lacerations, contusions or intracerebral hemorrhage open injuries - Correct Answer injury to the head in which there is a breach of the skull or a breach of the meninges penetrating brain injury - Correct Answer any injury that involves the penetration of a foreign object, munitions, fragment, bone chip, etc. through the dura mater non-traumatic brain injury - Correct Answer damage to the brain caused by internal factors, such as oxygen or nutrient deprivation to brain cells, exposure to toxins, pressure from a tumor or blockage, or other neurological disorder coup-contrecoup injury - Correct Answer Coup injury: head injury that results from impact of a moving object--occurs at the site of impact Contrecoup effect: impact injury resulting from the moving head striking a stationary object--injury occurs at the side of the head opposite the point of impact primary injury - Correct Answer initial cause of damage to the brain, from which injury severity ratings are obtained