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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Head injury |
 | | For example, a head injury is sometimes accompanied by a spinal injury. | | | Stabilize the head and neck by placing your hands on both sides of the person's head, keeping the head in line with the spine and preventing movement. | | | If the person's breathing and heart rate are normal but the person is unconscious, treat as if there is a spinal injury. |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000028.htm
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| | health.iafrica.com doc online neurological Head injury |
| | Head injury is frequently found associated with spinal cord injury. | | | Minor head injuries are so common that no GP is without experience of their treatment. | | | Contusions, or bruises, on the surface of the brain, and deeper haemorrhages (bleeds) result from the mechanical forces which move the brain relative to the skull. |
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http://health.iafrica.com/doconline/neurological/head_injury.htm
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| | Head Injuries |
| | Head injuries fall into two categories: external (usually scalp) injuries and internal head injuries, which may involve the skull, the blood vessels within the skull, or the brain. | | | It can be difficult to determine the level of injury, so it's always wise to discuss a head injury with your child's doctor. | | | A clear indicator of a more serious injury is when your child loses consciousness or has signs of confusion. |
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http://kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/emergencies/head_injury.html
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| | Frequently Asked Questions About Head Injury |
| | Gradual recovery from head injury may continue from several years. | | | Very strong medications are given to temporarily paralyze the head injured person, and even deepen his level of unconsciouness, in order to control his breathing, blood pressure and other vital functions. | | | One such resource is the Texas Head Injury Foundation which can provide emotional support to head injured people and their families and can help them find an appropriate rehabilitation setting. |
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| | eMedicine - Head Injury : Article by David A Olson, MD |
| | Head injury causes release of free radicals and breakdown of membrane lipids. | | | The GCS is the mainstay for rapid neurologic assessment in acute head injury. | | | Of 838 patients with severe head injury in one study, 25% talked at some point between the trauma onset and their deterioration into coma. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic153.htm
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| | Head Injury: Hope Through Research, NIH Pub No. 84-2478 |
| | Helping the patient cope with these and other effects of head injury is one goal of long-term therapy. | | | These changes could then be related to the condition of the patient after the injury and possible methods of treatment. | | | Recently, methods of therapy have been specifically designed for patients with head injuries. |
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http://www.bgsm.edu/bgsm/surg-sci/ns/NIH84-2478.html
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| | head injury |
| | Treatment is that of the outcome of the injury whether is that subdural haematomas or brain oedema. | | | Usually the child is grasped around the chest between two hands and repeatedly shaken with the head moving forward and backward causing rotational acceleration and deceleration injury. | | | The child is not a small adult; this is especially true in the child’s response to injury. |
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http://www.health.adelaide.edu.au/paed-neuro/HeadInjury/injury.html
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| | Head Injury |
| | Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is caused by some sort of external force that damages the brain (Read about the brain and its anatomy in "Brain/Mental Health/Nervous System"), for example a slamming of the head against the ground or the floor that basically bruises the brain. | | | The Brain Injury Association says that after one injury the risk of a second injury is three time greater; after the second injury the risk of a third is eight times greater. | | | Ninety-one percent of brain injuries from guns are fatal. |
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http://www.stayinginshape.com/4drhs/libv/e08.shtml
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| | Head Injury |
| | A concussion is defined as a head injury which is followed immediately with a period of loss of consciousness (the child is not arousable). | | | With any head injury where the child does not cry immediately and appears to "pass out" for seconds or minutes after the event, the doctor should be contacted immediately. | | | If a child cries immediately after an injury to the head and has no loss of consciousness, this is most likely to be a minor head injury. |
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http://www.callyourped.com/headinjury.html
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| | Ellen White's Head Injury |
| | When a head injury occurs, there is first the danger of the object in motion (in Ellen's case a stone) causing injury to the overlying skin and the structures immediately beneath it, such as blood vessels, nerves, and the underlying bone. | | | For a head injury to produce a coma or unconsciousness lasting some three weeks is not common and usually suggests a severe brain insult. | | | If Jennett concluded that there was a forty percent likelihood for a patient to develop epilepsy after a head injury resulting in an unconsciousness of twenty-four hours or longer, how much greater would be the chance for Ellen to develop epilepsy if she were unconscious for three weeks and amnesic for the whole incident. |
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| | Management of Head Injury - Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics |
| | The role of secondary brain injury in determining outcome from severe head injury. | | | Combined continuous monitoring of systemic and cerebral oxygenation in acute brain injury: preliminary observations. | | | - The role of secondary brain injury in determining outcome from severe head injury. |
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http://www.wheelessonline.com/ortho/management_of_head_injury_spinal_injury
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| | Post-traumatic Vertigo |
| | Post-traumatic vertigo refers to dizziness that follows a neck or head injury -- while injuries to other parts of the body might in theory be associated with dizziness, in practice this is almost never the case. | | | Seat-belts limit body injury, but can paradoxically increase cervical injuries as they restrict movement of the trunk. | | | Degenerative problems develop after injury in about 40% of patients. |
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http://www.tchain.com/otoneurology/disorders/post/posttrau.html
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| | Alabama Head Injury Foundation |
| | The Alabama Head Injury Foundation (AHIF) was founded by professionals and families in 1983 to increase public awareness of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and to stimulate the development of supportive services. | | | To improve the quality of life for survivors of traumatic brain injury and for their families. | | | AHIF provides the information to help clients and families understand the results of injury. |
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http://www.ahif.org
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| | Head injury |
| | Head injury: Triage, assessment, investigation and early management of head injury in infants, children and adults | | | It does not cover the long-term care or rehabilitation of people with a head injury, although it does explore possible ways of identifying people who may need rehabilitation. | | | CG4 Head injury: Triage, assessment, investigation and early management of head injury in infants, children and adults - NICE guideline |
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http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=56817
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| | Paediatric head injury -- Graham 124 (7): 1261 -- Brain |
| | Non-accidental head injury in infants: the `shaken-baby syndrome'. | | | injury in adults, the equivalent literature in paediatric head | | | of the child's head on the neck (Caffey, 1974 |
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| | Amazon.com: Head Injury : The Facts (Oxford Medical Publications): Books: Dorothy Gronwall,Philip Wrightson,Peter Waddel |
| | The book describes the injuries, the stages that the patient will go through, and the procedures and techniques that will be used to chart progress. | | | accident insurer, third injury, rehabilitation team, relaxing drugs, rehabilitation staff, first injury, injured person, mild head injury | | | This book is an excellent overview of the basic facts associated with brain injury. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192627139?v=glance
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| | Head Injury |
| | About 5% of patients with severe head injury will have a cervical spine fracture. | | | Facial paralysis or unilateral deafness may be seen due to cranial nerve injury. | | | Prognosis for recovery is good, as there is usually very little underlying brain injury. |
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http://www.madsci.com/manu/trau_hed.htm
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| | NATIONAL NEUROTRAUMA SOCIETY |
| | Chapter 20 : The role of surgery for intracranial mass lesions after head injury | | | Chapter 22 : Outcome after severe head injury | | | Chapter 4 : Primary and secondary brain injury |
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http://www.edc.gsph.pitt.edu/neurotrauma/thebook/book.html
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| | Head Injury Society of New Zealand |
| | The Head Injury Society of New Zealand was formed in 1987 to raise head injury issues at a national level, to increase understanding and recognition and to help address the needs of those who have suffered head injury and there families. | | | Membership of the Society is open to all who would like to support its work and includes head injured people, family members and professionals. | | | We do not know the reason for your visit but hope that the result is positive. |
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http://www.head-injury.org.nz
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