Head injury

Anatomy of the brain stem
Consciousness
1. State of being aware of external stimuli and one’s self.
  1. Regulated by reticular formation
    1. Set of interconnected nuclei within brainstem
    2. ARAS (cholinergic)
    3. DRAS (non-cholinergic
    4. Somatic motor, CVS, pain, consciousness, habituation
Traumatic Brain Injury
1. Concussion
  1. Can be accompanied with memory loss, altered neurological deficit
2. Contusion
  1. Hemorrhages on the surface of the brain
Pathology
2. Management of brain injury
  1. Initial resucitaton
    1. Postresucitative care
      1. Treatment of intracranial hypertension
        Treatment and prophylaxis of complications
  2. osmotic agent
    1. anti-seizures
      1. Phenytoin
    2. Mannitol
Types of herniation
1. subfalcine herniation
  1. transtentorial herniation
    1. tonsillar herniation
      1. transalar herniation

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	Created by Fatima Alkhateeb about 6 years ago