Brain Injury
By Dave Kettner
There are different brain injuries according to the force of injury to the head and the impact of that injury on the brain. Many terms are used to describe the causes of brain injury or types of brain injury. In other words there are many types of brain injury. The common terms used to describe brain injury are:
1. Traumatic brain injury
2. Acquired brain injury
3. levels of injury
4. Open and closed brain injury
Clinical features of brain injury
1. Coma
Coma is a state of mind where the person becomes unconscious due to an accident or an illness and this state of brain may continue for a day, a month or for several years. The person having this state of mind can’t be awakened even with great stimulation and no cure has been developed to recover a person from this state of mind referred to as coma. When a person is in he/she will not respond to any noise or sound or any activity. In coma, the person’s brain does function but at its lowest level of performance. The most common causes of can be:
1. Severe injury caused to the brain.
2. infections affecting the brain directly
3. brain stroke
4. A major accident or a major setback
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2. In mild Traumatic brain injury person is stunned, dazed for a few sec – minutes.
3. Loss of consciousness is transient – person becomes alert with or without post-trauma amnesia
Duration of:
– Unconsciousness
– Post Trauma amnesia
– Helps grade the severity of the damage. E.g. Post Trauma amnesia Is for more than 24 hrs ŕ severe Traumatic brain injury
Recovery from brain injury
The major problems associated with brain injury are Memory loss, headache, sleep Disorders, anger and depression and many others. A person with brain injury has to be provided with intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital and a close supervision is required. The person with brain injury is given fluids along with medicines and nutrients all the time so that his/her body remains healthy as the brain at this stage functions at the lowest level of performance and is unable perform well. Recovery from brain injury is not very easy.
Summary:
There are different brain injuries according to the force of injury to the head and the impact of that injury on the brain. Many terms are used to describe the causes of brain injury or types of brain injury.
