Spinal Cord Injury

Injury

Traumatic Injury

Ischemic Injury and Stoke

Excitation Injury

Pressure Injury

Open (exposure to the brain)

Closed

Fracture

Occlusion of blood supply

Scalp Laceration

Skull Fracture

-Automobile accidents

-Sports accidents

-Falls

Hematoma

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Hemorrhage

-Shaken baby syndrome

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Treatment

Concussion

**Traumatic Brain Injury from brain tumor

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rest, medication, therapies and surgery

(Inadequate perfusion to neurologic tissue)

Focal

Embolism

Local Hemorrhage

Thrombosis

-Serositis

-Transplantation

(Impair Neurologic Functioning)

-Acute Kidney Injury

Global

Hypoxia

Profound Hemorrhage

Cardiac Arrest

rest, medication, and surgery

Treatment

Damages of neuronal tissues

Medication

inadequate flow of nutrients and oxygen to the cell

Thrombolysis

Changing your position

Change Dressing

Increase Intracellular Fluid, hypoosmotic state

(cuts off the blood supply to the skin)

Treatment

Obstruction of Ventricle System

Clean wound

Inflammation

CNS Tumors

Hemorrhage

Congenital Anomaly

Cerebral Edema

-Bedsore

-Sores (Ulcers)

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inability to meet metabolic pathways

Depolarization

Neurons of the hippocampus and cerebral cortex

Change in neuron impulse frequency or intensity

Injury to the brain neurons

amino acid glutamate

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From a TBI

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Treatment

Because of glutamate, increase in calcium, Cognitive & memory affected

Stimulation

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Cytokinal chemical activation

Reduced GABA production

hypoxia

permanent brain injury