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Brain Injuries

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• Personal Injuries In California: Brian Injuries By Michael J. Richter
  
  • What are the causes and effects of "mild" brain injuries?
    • "Mild" is the term some experts use for brain injuries that are not associated with a loss of consciousness. Unfortunately, "mild" brain injuries can have catastrophic results, both on the life of the injured person and the lives of the people who live around him or her.
    • "Mild" brain injuries can cause subtle, but important changes that are hard to diagnose and hard to recognize. Many people don't even go to a doctor. When they do, doctors often miss the diagnosis because the symptoms are hard to define and the microscopic damage to nerve cells doesn't appear on an MRI or a CT scan. Yet the damage is there.
  • More information: http://www.askthelawyers.com/articles/ca/braininjury_richter_a.htm
  • See also Law
• Head Injury
  • The head is very vulnerable to injury, often with severe consequences. It is particularly susceptible to acceleration/deceleration and rotational forces because it is heavy in relation to its size (3-6 kg, avg 4.5 kg or 10 lb), is freely mobile in 3 dimensions and occupies a relatively unstable position, being secured only by the neck muscles and ligaments.
  • Analagy for head injury: blancmange (brain), wrapped in cling film (arachnoid), in a paper bag (dura), inside a cardboard box (skull), wrapped in brown paper (scalp).
    • Any layer may be damaged by:
      • Direct impact on the box (blow),
      • Dropping the box (fall) or
      • Shaking the box (acceleration/deceleration)
  • Topics covered
    • Scalp Injuries
    • Skull Fractures
    • INTRACRANIAL HAEMORRHAGE (ICH)
      • Extradural haemorrhage (EDH)
      • Subdural haemorrhage (SDH)
      • Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH)
      • Intracerebral haemorrhage
    • BRAIN INJURY
    • COMPLICATIONS OF HEAD INJURY
  • http://www.dundee.ac.uk/forensicmedicine/llb/heading.htm

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