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TBI

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Penetrating Head Injury   Open Head injury, fracture meninges and skull  
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Non penetrating head injury   more common, Closed head injury no fracture meninges or skull.  
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Meninges   membranes covering the brain and spinal cord  
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Causes of Penetrating Head injury   Missile, gunshot, Stabbed  
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Causes of Non penetrating head injury   Car accident, Pedestrian accident, Abuse, Fall, Sports.  
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Risk Factors of TBI   Age. More likely in young adults than elder or toddlers. Substance abuse. SES (more likely to be in TBI situations. Type A personality (competitive, hostile, impulsive) Type B (cooperative, docile, Helpful) High risk Sports.  
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TBI Vs Stroke   Diffuse injury to entire brain. No changes and then rapid change. More difficult to predict prognosis. ( damage to specific area more rapid recovery then it slows down)  
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Abrasion   Scratched surface  
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Laceration   Cut  
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Contusion   Bruise  
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Hemmorhage   Bleeding in brain (hematoma (focal bleeding)  
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Cerebral Edema   Sweeling due to increase in blood supply  
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infaction   death of tissue bc of deprived blood supply.  
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Characteristics   Physical, Cognitive, Communicative, Psychosocial and Pragmatic  
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Physical Deficits   difficulty walking poor coordination  
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Cognitive Deficits   Problem solving, orientation, reasoning, memeory, attention  
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Communicative Deficits   anomia, poor comprehension, speech voice swallowing.. dysphagia dysarthria  
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Pyschosocial Deficits   Impulsive,Aggressivenes, Disinhibition depression, apathy.  
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Pragmatic deficits   no turn takin. rambling speech, incoherent.  
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Prognostic Factors   the longer it last the poorer the prognosis 2-8 severe, 9-12 moderate 13-15 mild... < 2 weeks good recovery > 12 weeks poor recoveryseverity of injury focal injury better and diffuse poor recovery. age premorbid intelligence and personality  
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TBI STAGE 1 (moderate-severe)   lose consciousness. lengths varies. begins to respond to the envrionment indiscriminately and purposelessly. decreased attention, hypersenstitive to stimuli, labile, shouting biting, repetitive steroptyped movements.  
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TBI STAGE 2 (Becomes more lucid)   more purpose behavior, restles, orientation improves, follows direction, attention span improves, Able to perform ADL with supersvision.  
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TBI STAGE 3 (more independence)   problems memory, reasoning and attention  
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