Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Head Injury- includes any trauma to scalp, skull or brain. (DIFFUSE …

- - - - Simple- Linear or depressed without fragmentation
        
        Comminuted- multiple linear fractures, with fragmentation
        
        Compound- Depressed fracture, scalp laceration (severe head injury)
- - - - Complication: post concussion syndrome, such as personality and behaviour changes, memory changes, intellectual changes. Affects ADL's
  - - - Complications: Often DAI patients will remain in vegetative state
- - - - Complications: haemorrhage, infarction, necrosis, oedema, seizures. Can be coup, or contrecoup (multiple contused areas)
- - - - Chronic- occurs weeks of months after injury. Often injury seems small or was forgotten, non-specific progression, altering LOC. Common in older adults.