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Paramedic: Head and Spine Trauma
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What consists of the brain and spinal cord?
Definition
Central Nervous System 1644
Term
What is a tendon expansion that connects the frontal and occipital muscles of the cranium?
Definition
Galea Aponeurotica 1644
Term
What joins the paired parietal bones?
Definition
Sagittal Suture 1644
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What joins the parietal bones to the frontal bone?
Definition
Coronal Suture 1644
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What joins the occipital bone to the parietal bones?
Definition
Lambdoid Suture 1644
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What is the fibrous tissue the link the sutures?
Definition
Fontanelles 1644
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What cone-shaped section of bone is at the base of each temporal bone?
Definition
Mastoid Process 1644
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What are the 3 compartments the cranial vault is divided into?
Definition
Anterior, Middle, and Posterior Fossa 1644
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What forms a prominent bony ridge in the center of the anterior fossa and is the point of attachment of the meninges?
Definition
Crista Galli 1644
Term
What are numerous openings?
Definition
Foramina 1644
Term
What is on the other side of the crista galli, a horizontal bone that is perforated with numerous openings (formina), allowing the passage of the olfactory nerve filaments from the nasal cavity?
Definition
Cribriform Plate of the Ethmoid Bone 1644
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What is the chamber inside the nose that lies between the floor of the cranium and the roof of the mouth?
Definition
Nasal Cavity 1644
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What is the bone that extends along the front of the skull below the orbit?
Definition
Zygomatic Arch 1645
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What is the largest part of the cerebrum which regulates voluntary skeletal movement and the level of awareness?
Definition
Cerebral Cortex 1645
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What is important for voluntary motor action and personality traits?
Definition
Frontal Lobe 1646
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What controls the somatic or voluntary sensory and motor functions for the opposite (contralateral) side of the body, as well as memory and emotions?
Definition
Parietal Lobe 1646
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Where does the optic nerve originate and is responsible for processing visual information?
Definition
Occipital Lobe 1646
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Where is the speech center located?
Definition
Temporal Lobe 1646
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What controls long-term memory, hearing, taste, and smell?
Definition
Temporal Lobe 1646
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What is a structure that separates the cerebral hemisphere from the cerebellum and brainstem?
Definition
Tentorium 1648
Term
What is a collection of individual nerve roots?
Definition
Cauda Equina 1650
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What are pinpoint red dots in the sclera of the eye and represent the rupture of tiny vessels?
Definition
Petechial Hemorrhages 1658
Term
What are respirations that are fast and then become slow, with intervening periods of apnea?
Definition
Cheyne-Stokes Respirations 1659
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What are deep, rapid respirations that are similar to Kussmaul?
Definition
Central Neurogenic Hyperventilation 1659
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What are characterized by irregular rate, pattern, and volume of breathing with intermittent periods of apnea?
Definition
Ataxic or Biot Respirations 1659
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What is drooping of the upper eyelid and a small pupil that would indicate and injury to C3?
Definition
Horner Syndrome 1660
Term
What is hyperacute pain to touch?
Definition
Hyperesthesia 1660
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What is the ability to perceive the position and movement of one's own body or limbs?
Definition
Proprioception 1660
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What is an increase in MAP to compensate for decreased cerebral perfusion pressure?
Definition
Autoregulation 1665
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What is the most common type of brain herniation and occurs when a portion of the temporal lobe is displaced?
Definition
Uncal Herniation 1665
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What type of brain herniation occurs when part of the cerebellum is displaced through the foramen magnum?
Definition
Tonsillar Herniation 1665
Term
What is hypertension (with a widening pulse pressure), bradycardia, and irregular respirations?
Definition
Cushing Triad 1665
Term
What is a injury that affects the entire brain?
Definition
Diffuse Brain Injury 1665
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What is a specific, grossly observable brain injury (it can be seen on a CT scan)?
Definition
Focal Brain Injury 1666
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What is an accumulation of blood between the skull and dura mater?
Definition
Epidural Hematoma 1666
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What is an accumulation of blood beneath the dura mater but outside the brain?
Definition
Subdural Hematoma 1667
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What involves bleeding within the brain tissue itself?
Definition
Intracerebral Hematoma 1668
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What is bleeding between the periosteum of the skull and the galea aponeurosis?
Definition
Subgaleal Hemorrhage 1668
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What will often be defined as a firmer, nodular mass occasionally with idiom "goose egg" used to describe it?
Definition
Supragaleal Hematoma 1668
Term
What is a high body temperature?
Definition
Hyperpyrexia 1669
Term
What results from forward movement of the head, typically as the result of rapid deceleration or from a direct blow to the occiput?
Definition
Flexion Injuries 1670
Term
What is a partial dislocation?
Definition
Subluxation 1670
Term
What is paralysis of the small bowel?
Definition
Paralytic Ileus 1673
Term
What is structural defect of the spine involving the lamina or vertebral arch?
Definition
Spondylolysis 1684
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