Closed Head Injury Case Study Y.W. is a 23-year-old male student from Thailand studying electrical engineering at the university. He was ejected from a moving vehicle‚ which was traveling 70 mph. His injuries included a severe closed head injury with an occipital hematoma‚ bilateral wrist fractures‚ and a right pneumothorax. During his neurologic intensive care unit (NICU) stay‚ Y.W. was intubated and placed on mechanical ventilation‚ had a feeding tube inserted and was placed on tube feedings
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Injuries With the little protective equipment required for rugby‚ there are usually a few injuries that happen per season. As John Miller of Physio Works states‚ “as many as 1 in 4 rugby players will be injured during a season.” Over half of the injuries that happen in rugby are caused by tackling or getting tackled during the second half of games. Muscular strains and contusions make up a large portion of the injuries associated with rugby but sprains‚ dislocations‚ fractures‚ lacerations and overuse
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An injury is classified as an external force (event) which causes physical harm to an individuals body. Minor injuries could lead to repairable damage‚ while more serious conditions may lead to reduced functioning of the body‚ permanent disability or in some cases death. Injuries may be accidental such as: Motor vehicle accidents - Burns Drownings - Sporting injuries Falls - Poisoning Or they could
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INTRODUCTION Head injury is including injury of scalp‚ skull and also the brain. Approximately statistic in Malaysia from year 2009 to 2010 that more than 6‚000 people accidental death sustain with a head injury. According to Deputy Minister of transport Malaysia ‚ Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri said most of the cause of death among the passengers and pillion riders is head injury (56.5%) ‚ brain injury (38.1%)‚ head and brain injury (34%) and head fracture (27.9%) .(nuffnang.blogspot). This scenario should
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Intro to Athletic Training Ankle injuries are very common among athletes in every sport. Many people believe that different ways help you heal from an ankle injury. This article‚ A Systematic Review on the Treatment of Acute Ankle Sprain: Braces versus Other Functional Treatment Types‚ explains its results in testing these methods. Their methods were to take a large number of people with an acute ankle sprain and see if there was a difference between a brace and other functional methods. This
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that die from traumatic brain injuries every year. Involvement in sports and recreation activities may cause traumatic brain injury. A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) occurs when an external force traumatically injures the brain. This is a serious current event that needs to brought to the attention of people. Thousands of people die yearly due to TBIs. Compared to adults‚ children and adolescents are at a higher risk for traumatic brain injury with more severe injuries and prolonged recovery. It is
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every car accident‚ injury on the job‚ or other accident or injury is going to require the intervention of an attorney. Because of that‚ you might hesitate to contact an attorney. If you are unsure if an attorney can help you‚ ask yourself these three questions: Was There Substantial Bodily Injury? If you were involved in a car accident which was caused by someone else and which resulted in severe bodily injury including whiplash‚ broken bones‚ lacerations‚ and other injuries requiring hospital care
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soccer can cause head injuries‚ sprains‚ and fractures. In the article‚ it states that soccer is a dangerous sport and causes kids to go to the ER more. Soccer attracts kids of all athletic. According to LaBella a doctor in an emergency room most of the injuries she treats is kids that didn’t have the athletic capability to play soccer. LaBella said that most kids just wanted to be with their friend. Some kids lack the needed training to play soccer. Soccer causes many head injuries. The rate of treated
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DOI: 5/5/13. This is a 52-year-old female assembler who incurred a work-related injury when her finger got caught in while she was trying to unjam a machine. The patient was subsequently diagnosed with traumatic middle finger‚ arthropathy‚ myofascial pain‚ cervicalgia‚ and chronic pain syndrome. As per pain management consultation report dated 5/10/16‚ the patient complains of left hand and finger pain radiating up to the upper extremity‚ shoulder and cervical spine. She rates her pain as 9. Her
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One of the common problems facing the world of sonography today are repetitive strain injuries (RSI’s) that are commonly accumulated by sonographers. RSI’s “are the result of the accumulation of small‚ repetitive stresses on muscle fibers over time” (Brown‚ 2003). These injuries have been a common topic in sonography for a period of time. Shoulder pain complaints first arose in the 1980’s because the use of the static scanner required an abducted arm. As the industry has moved forward‚ complaints
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