25 Trauma and Foreign Bodies Flashcards
(89 cards)
T/F: In kids, the incidence of FB aspiration is equal b/w right and left bronchus
True (left bronchus not as obliquely angled in kids as in adults)
T/F: Airway FB are more common than esophageal
False
M/c esoph FB in kids < 5 yo
coins
M/c dx inappropriately given to a child with an airway FB
Asthma
What are the 2 types of nontraumatic CSF leaks
High pressure and nl pressure
M/c cause of CSF leak
nonsurgical trauma
What percent of CSF leaks are from nontraumatic causes
3-4%
What percent of basilar skull fx result in CSF leak
10-30%
What percent of pts with CSF leak 2/2 nonsurg trauma will get meningitis
10-25%
What is mortality rate of pts who develop meningitis w/ traumatic CSF leak
10%
What percent of CSF leaks are cranionasal?
80%
T/F: cranio-aural CSF leaks are more likely to spontaneously close than cranionasal CSF leaks
True
What is medical MAN of CSF leaks
Elevate HOB Antitussives Laxatives Anti-hypertensives Analgesics Bed rest Lumbar drain
What is a serious complication of lumbar drainage?
Tension pneumocephalus
What percent of skull fx involve t bone
20%
What is m/c mechanism of CHL in longitudinal t bone fx
IS joint dislocation
Incidence of facial nerve injury after transverse t bone fx
40-50%
What type of t bone fx accounts for majority of facial nerve injuries
Longitudinal, just bc it is so much more common
Incidence of FN paralysis in pts with longitudinal t bone fx
20-25%
M/c etiologies of nerve dysfunction after longitudinal t bone fx
Edema and intraneural hemorrhage
M/c area of FN injury following trauma
Perigeniculate area
Strongest predictor of poor recovery of FN fnc following t bone trauma
Immediate onset of paralysis in pt w/ closed head injury
What type of t bone fx most likely if the blow is to the occiput
transverse
Typical course of fx line in transverse t bone fx
foramen magnum across petrous apex across IAC and otic capsule to foramen spinosum or lacerum