What is a brain injury? What does being "brain-injured"? A brain-injured patient is a person with severe brain damage that result in achieving the thought process. Brain damage may occur after: - Head injury - An aneurysm or stroke - A tumor - A brain abscess - Following a disease affecting the nervous system (multiple sclerosis‚ Behcet’s disease ...) Consecutive brain damage such accidents and diseases often cause coma‚ neurological damage and cognitive impairment. What problems does it
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Head injury Any trauma to the scalp‚ skull or brain‚ TBI. Head trauma includes an alteration in consciousness‚ no matter how brief. Common causes: motor vehicle crashes and falls. Firearm‚ assaults‚ sports-related injuries‚ recreational accidents. Deaths occur at three points in time after injury: 1) Immediately 2) within 2 hours 3) 3 weeks after the injury GCS on arrival is also a strong predictor of survival: GCS < 8 30% to 70% chance of survival. GCS > 8 indicating >90% survival. Neurological
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|Table Of Contents | |Executive Summary | So All Kids Can Play! The goal of our project is to host a charity football match in Toronto for the summer of 2012. Two international world class teams will partake
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and just escape it all‚ escape the hurricane that we call life and experience the calm‚ that place‚ my eye of the storm is the soccer field. Soccer has always been something I loved but also something that I didn’t always take seriously until about my freshman year of high school. I can remember my first time realizing and seeing how awe-inspiring place the center of a soccer field can be. I was in the latter half of 8th grade‚ taking part in a league being held by a local K-8 school and my team had
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Understanding Work Related Injuries By Debbra Murphy Axia College of University of Phoenix “Worker’s compensation is a social insurance program that provides medical care‚ cash benefits‚ and rehabilitation services to workers who are disabled fro a job related accident of disease.” (anglefire.com) Worker’s compensation started in the 1800’s in Germany‚ when it was seen that workers injured while working for a company needed to be taken care of so they did not suffer physically or financially
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Jim Meyer Personal Research 6.16.2014 Moral Injury This juggernaut of war has crushed millions of humankind. Its savagery and decadence is consummate. Such butchery has patently marked all the wars of this century and before. This cannibalization of mankind on its own is unparalleled. Scenes of human massacre that few persons would believe will be imprinted perpetually in the minds of the combatants. Many of those who experience the immoral‚ offensive and degrading trauma of war can be physically
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thought to what decisions could result in injury. For the most part‚ knew what could get me seriously hurt or what could have life-changing consequences in the future‚ but I when I decided whether or not to do something‚ an injury wasn’t the first thing that crossed my mind. It was normally already halfway in before that I realized I could get hurt‚ but‚ luckily‚ I had never broken a bone or been to the hospital and had never really had a significant injury that I can really remember. However‚ when
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against a very tough Indianapolis Colts team. With the release of Friday’s injury report‚ many of those concerns have been put to rest. While wide receivers Robert Woods (hip)‚ Percy Harvin (hip) and Chris Hogan (knee) have all been nursing injuries through the preseason‚ it appears as though all of them should be ready to go since there injury status is currently listed as "probable." The more pressing issues were injuries to recently signed free agent and former All-Pro running back LeSean McCoy
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Fluid Percussion Brain Injury (FPI) Model – Miami: Animals were anesthetized (70% N2O‚ 1-3% isoflurane‚ and 30% O2) 24 hr prior to injury and surgically prepared for parasagittal FPI as described previously.19 Briefly‚ a craniotomy (4.8 mm) was performed at 3.8 mm posterior to bregma and 2.5 mm lateral to midline. A plastic injury tube was placed over the exposed dura and affixed to the skull with adhesive and dental acrylic. The scalp was then sutured closed‚ and the animals were allowed to recover
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Sport Injuries Fractures A bone fracture is a condition in where there is a break or crack of the bone. A bone fracture can be the result of high force impact or stress on the bone Fractures can occur in any bone in the body. There are different types of fractures for example a clean break to the bone that does not damage surrounding tissue or tear through the skin is known as a closed fracture. On the other hand‚ one that damages surrounding skin or tissue is known as an open fracture. This
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