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Anterograde (Posttraumatic) Amnesia
🗸🗸: Inability to remember events after an injury.
Basilar Skull Fractures
🗸🗸: Usually occur following diffuse impact to the head (such as falls, motor vehicle
crashes); generally result from extension of a linear fracture to the base of the skull
and can be difficult to diagnose with a radiograph (x-ray).
Battle's Sign
🗸🗸: Bruising behind an ear over the mastoid process that may indicate a skull
fracture.
Cerebral Edema
🗸🗸: Swelling of the brain.
Closed Head Injury
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🗸🗸: Injury in which the brain ahs been injured but the skin has not been broken and
there is no obvious bleeding.
Concussion
🗸🗸: A temporary loss or alteration of part of all of the brain's abilities to function
without actual physical damage to the brain.
Connecting Nerves
🗸🗸: Nerves in the spinal cord that connect the motor and sensory nerves.
Coup-Contrecoup Injury
🗸🗸: Dual impacting of the brain into the skull; coup injury occurs at the point of
impact; Contrecoup injury occurs on the opposite side of impact, as the brain
rebounds.
Distraction
🗸🗸: the action of pulling the spine along its length.
Epidural Hematoma
🗸🗸: An accumulation of blood between the skull and the dura mater.
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Eyes-Forward Position
🗸🗸: A head position in which the patient's eyes are looking straight ahead and the
head and torso are in line.
Four-Person Log Roll
🗸🗸: The recommended procedure for moving a patient with a suspected spinal
injury from the ground to a long backboard.
Intervertebral Disk
🗸🗸: The cushion that lies between two vertebrae.
Intracerebral Hematoma
🗸🗸: Bleeding within the brain tissue (parenchyma) itself; also referred to as an
intraparenchymal hematoma.
ICP
🗸🗸: Intracranial Pressure.
Intracranial Pressure (ICP)
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🗸🗸: The pressure within the cranial vault.
Involuntary Activities
🗸🗸: Actions of the body that are not under a person's conscious control.
Linear Skull Fractures
🗸🗸: Account for 80% of skull fractures; also referred to as nondisplaced skull
fractures; commonly occur in the temporal-parietal region of the skull; not associated
with deformities to the skull.
Meninges
🗸🗸: Three distinct layers of tissue that surround and protect the brain and the spinal
cord within the skull and the spinal canal.
Open Head Injury
🗸🗸: Injury to the head often caused by a penetrating object in which there may be
bleeding and exposed brain tissue.
Primary (Direct) Injury