Head Trauma: Introduction and Diffuse Axonal Injury
Über den Vortrag
Der Vortrag „Head Trauma: Introduction and Diffuse Axonal Injury“ von Roy Strowd, MD ist Bestandteil des Kurses „Year 4 – Selective Sub-Internship“.
Quiz zum Vortrag
Head trauma is...
- ...an injury to the skull, brain, and/or intracranial structures.
- ...ischemia to brain tissue.
- ...a physical force applied to the cranial structures resulting in hemorrhage.
- ...any nonhemorrhagic injury of the brain tissue.
- ...an injury to the skull but not the deeper structures.
What is one of the three most common etiologies of head trauma?
- Falls
- Gang violence
- Inadvertent trauma in unobserved children
- Helmet-induced trauma
- Airbags
What is an example of a diffuse brain injury?
- Diffuse axonal injury
- Contusion
- Intracranial hemorrhage
- Scalp laceration
- Basilar skull fracture
What is the term for a primary brain injury affecting a focal area of the brain on the side of impact and also the opposite side of the brain?
- Coup and contrecoup injury
- Diffuse axonal injury
- Acceleration/deceleration injury
- En coup de sabre injury
- Subdural hematoma
What term describes a diffuse injury to the brain caused by shearing or stretching forces on the axons of the brain parenchyma?
- Diffuse axonal injury
- Subdural hematoma
- Diffuse neuronal shearing
- Generalized neuronal injury
- Hemorrhagic infarct
Where in the brain is diffuse axonal injury most likely to occur?
- Junction of the gray–white matter
- Basal ganglia
- Corpus callosum
- Pyramidal nuclei
- Internal capsule
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Dozent des Vortrages Head Trauma: Introduction and Diffuse Axonal Injury
Roy Strowd, MD
Dr. Roy Strowd is the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, in North Carolina, USA.
He obtained his MD from Wake Forest School of Medicine in 2009, and his MEd from Johns Hopkins University in 2021. Currently, he co-directs the Neurofibromatosis and Tuberous Sclerosis Clinics at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and is a researcher for the Adult Brain Tumor Consortium (ABTC) and Alliance for Clinical Trials in Neuro-Oncology.
Due to his achievements, he earned the M. Brownell Anderson Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Within Lecturio, Dr. Strowd teaches courses on Clinical Neurology.
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