Brain damage is a serious traumatic disease to the brain, mainly due to damage caused by external forces such as meninges and brain tissue and cerebrovascular. In clinical practice, patients with brain injury generally have various manifestations such as coma, nerve disorders, and disorders of consciousness, so it may cause some serious sequelae. Only timely treatment can prevent serious effects of brain injury.
What are the sequelae of brain injury?
Concussion is a manifestation of temporary consciousness disorder when a patient with brain injury is injured in the early stage. Generally, the duration of concussion is not long, about half an hour, but patients are prone to various discomfort symptoms, such as dizziness, headache, and insomnia. There are no positive signs after neurological examination. If the damage is serious, the patient's dizziness and headache will occur for a long time.
. Brain contusion and laceration
Some patients will fall into a coma immediately after brain injury. If the coma lasts too long, it may be caused by brain contusion and laceration. Brain contusion and laceration are a condition of brain injury and a special problem that will cause after the injury is caused. For example, the patient will have a long-term coma, and internal cerebral cortex and brainstem damage will occur.
, diffuse axonal injury
, Brain Stem Injury
Patients with brainstem injury will immediately fall into a coma, and the coma is deep and lasts for a long time, so the lives of patients with brainstem injuries are easily threatened. After examination, it can be found that the patient with brainstem injury has different pupils on both sides, or there are changes in size, and the patient's vital signs will gradually become disordered, such as difficulty breathing, cardiovascular dysfunction, or obvious changes in body temperature. In severe cases, it will also cause internal organ bleeding or reverse.
5, Secondary brain injury
Secondary brain injury is usually a secondary lesion problem caused by primary brain injury, mainly due to brain edema, cerebral hematoma or intracranial infection after the injury. This is because brain damage will cause damage to brain tissue and may cause blood vessel rupture. A cerebral hematoma will form when the blood continues to increase, and it will also cause the patient to have an intracranial high pressure, which greatly increases the probability of intracranial infection, and may directly endanger life.
How to treat brain injury?
Treatment of brain injury also requires judgment based on the specific degree of injury and the cause of the injury. Brain injuries can be divided into open brain injury and closed brain injury. Open brain injuries need to be processed in a timely manner for foreign investors. In addition, it is determined whether the dura ruptures and whether there is cerebral leakage. Closed brain injury is mostly caused by blunt force violence, so the scalp and skull are intact, but it is necessary to clarify whether the patient has intracranial hypertension and choose surgical treatment if necessary.
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