Head Injury Flashcards by Katelyn Mulligan

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Cranium

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Skull

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Coup

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First impact

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Contrecoup

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Second impact

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Sign

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Something you can see

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Symptom

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Something you cant see

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Amnesia

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Memory Loss

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Photophobia

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Sensitivity to light

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Phonophobia

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Sensitivity to sound

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Tinnitus

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Ringing in your ears

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Concussion

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Most common head injury

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Battle’s Sign

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Bruise behind the ear, sign of a skull fracture

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Glasgow Coma Scale

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Scale to determine levels of consciousness

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Epidural Hematoma

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Brain Bleed

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LOC

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Loss of Consciousness

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Retrograde Amnesia

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Cant remember events from before the injury

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Anterograde amnesia

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Cant remember events after the injury

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Second Impact Syndrome

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A

Second head injury before the first is fully healed

Q

Percent of concussion that result in LOC

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10%

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Nausea

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Having to vomit