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Anterograde (Posttraumatic) Amnesia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Inability to
remember events after an injury.
Basilar Skull Fractures - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Bruising behind an ear over the mastoid
process that may indicate a skull fracture.
Cerebral Edema - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Swelling of the brain.
Closed Head Injury - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Injury in which the brain ahs been
injured but the skin has not been broken and there is no obvious bleeding.
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,Concussion - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Nerves in the spinal cord that connect
the motor and sensory nerves.
Coup-Contrecoup Injury - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the action of pulling the spine along its length.
Epidural Hematoma - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An accumulation of blood between
the skull and the dura mater.
Eyes-Forward Position - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The recommended procedure for
moving a patient with a suspected spinal injury from the ground to a long
backboard.
Intervertebral Disk - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The cushion that lies between two
vertebrae.
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,Intracerebral Hematoma - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Bleeding within the brain tissue
(parenchyma) itself; also referred to as an intraparenchymal hematoma.
ICP - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Intracranial Pressure.
Intracranial Pressure (ICP) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The pressure within the cranial
vault.
Involuntary Activities - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Actions of the body that are not
under a person's conscious control.
Linear Skull Fractures - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Injury to the head often caused by a
penetrating object in which there may be bleeding and exposed brain
tissue.
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, Primary (Direct) Injury - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An injury to the brain and its
associated structures that is a direct result of impact to the head.
Raccoon Eyes - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Bruising under the eyes that may indicate
a skull fracture.
Retrograde Amnesia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The inability to remember events
leading up to a head injury.
Secondary (Indirect) Injury - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The "after effects" of the
primary injury; includes abnormal processes such as cerebral edema,
increased intracranial pressure, cerebral ischemia and hypoxia, and
infection; onset is often delayed following the primary brain injury.
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Bleeding into the
subarachnoid space, where the cerebrospinal fluid circulates.
Subdural Hematoma - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔An accumulation of blood beneath
the dura mater but outside the brain.
Subluxation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A partial or incomplete dislocation.
TBI - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Traumatic Brain Injury
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