When something force at brain from the outside it occurs the traumatic brain injury. There are different types of traumatic brain injuries. If you involve in some of those cases, you should know about all types’ traumatic brain injury. These are:
- Concussion
- Diffuse axonal injury
- Skull fracture or penetration injury
- Coup or contrecoup injury
- Shaken baby syndrome
- Contusion
- Acquired brain injury
- Skull fracture.
Concussion: Blood vessels are stretched in brain and cranial nerves may be damaged in concussion brain injury. Loss of consciousness may be happed in this case. The victim of this case, live with memory loss, lightheadedness, vomiting and slurred speech. Irritability, sleeping trouble and sensitive with light and noise are the other symptom of this disease.
Diffuse axonal injury: This injury damages the nerve fibers all over the brain. It causes half of brain injuries. It cause for resulting brain damage and the death of nerve cells. It is tougher to cure from concussion.
Penetration injury: The skull broken or fractured in penetration injury. It is a focal injury. In this case a specific area is affected by it. Bullet penetrative injury have 92% mortality rate. Skull fracture is a common complication of this disease.
Contrecoup brain injury: when a victim’s skull step up quickly and stop abruptly, it is assumed that contrecoup brain injury is occurred. A coup injury occurs directly under the site of impact with an object, and a contrecoup injury occurs on the opposite side of the head. These can occur together or separately.
Shaken baby syndrome: It is a type of inflicted traumatic brain injury. It can cause irreversible brain damage it may not be present immediately.
Contusion: The brain contusion causes many complications such as memory and cognitive problems. It may occur at the frontal and temporal lobes of brain.
Acquired brain injury: When the brain unable to receive any oxygen, acquired brain injury attack the brain. It occurs at cellular level. It causes by:
- Obstruction of airway
- Electrical shock
- Lightening strike
- Choking
- Strangulation
- Heart attack
- Stroke
- Suffocation
- Poisoning
- Meningitis
- Encephalitis
Skull fractures: A skull fractures causes by an intense blow of the brain. There are different types of skull fractures: basilar skull fractures, depressed skull fractures, linear skull fractures, diastatic skull fractures and occipital fractures.
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