Nursing 4440A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dazed, United States Soccer Federation, Sidney Crosby
19 Mar 2019
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What do you know about concussions: feeling foggy, not like yourself, headaches, fatigue. Concussions: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=yyrblsafb_k, a player receives a severe blow to the head. The brain accelerates and strikes the skull wall. Damage occurs when nerve endings and blood vessels stretch and tear as the brain rotates and rebounds. Irritability, sadness, more emotional, nervousness: drowsiness, sleeping more than usual, sleeping less than usual, difficulty falling asleep. Yes (measures best eye opening, best verbal response and best motor response) Post-concussion symptom scale: rating symptoms on how much felt in last 24 hours. If a second head injury is sustained before symptoms associated with the first have fully cleared, there is a risk for diffuse cerebral swelling, a rare condition that is more common in children than in adults and frequently fatal. Rowan"s law is one step in protecting kids from concussions: young women from ottawa who died after a second head injury.
