COMPARTMENT SYNDROME 1 Compartment Syndrome Shannin Daniels ENGL 135 Professor Erikson August 18, 2010 COMPARTMENT 2 Compartment syndrome is a devastating side effect of orthopedic injuries, crush injuries and trauma. The injury at the cellular level is amazing. What the muscle goes through following one of these injuries is complex. Having a diagnosis quickly can mean the difference between surgery to relieve pressure to amputation. The trauma of surgery followed by probable skin grafting can be devastating also.
Depending on what nerves are effected, depends on where the stenosis is. There are also two different categories you can have; mild to moderate pain or severe pain. Stenosis can occur as central stenosis which is narrowing of the entire canal or as formal stenosis which is narrowing where the nerve root exists. “Lateral recess stenosis” is when there is a severe narrowing of the later part of the canal. In this kind of stenosis the most important part or component is the flavum ligament.
Older children tend to injure themselves while playing sports, riding bicycles, and in motor vehicle accidents. Also, because a child’s ligaments are stronger than those of an adult, forces which would tend to cause a sprain in an older individual will be transmitted to the bone and cause a fracture in a child. Caution should therefore be exercised when assessing a young child diagnosed with a sprain. 1. Plastic Deformation - A force produces microscopic failure on the tensile/convex side of bone which does not propagate to the concave side.
B) Observe the area behind Jeff's ears. Other manifestations of a basilar skull fracture include tinnitus, facial paralysis, hearing difficulty, epistaxis, and CSF (cerebral spinal fluid) leakage from the nose or ears. The nurse is concerned about the rhinorrhea that Jeff is experiencing. 2. What methods can the nurse use to determine if the drainage is CSF?
There are many fracture types which include: A hairline fracture which is where the bone doesn’t fully break and is not clear when x-rayed. Complex fracture which is caused by a twisting movement and the bones are separated which makes it more difficult to heal. Greenstick fracture is where the bone splits on the side and bends on the other this is more common in children. Comminuted fracture is where your bone is crushed into pieces this usually only happens in a serious accident. Impacted fracture is where your bone goes into another when it breaks.
Hunters Syndrome Michele Frizzell HCS/245 June 16, 2014 Erich Widemark Hunter Syndrome Most infants at one point or another get an ear infection, runny nose or a cold. As a parent, what would you do if your child had symptoms such as these? What diagnosis would a pediatrician give? The commonality of these symptoms in infants is high; therefore, Hunter Syndrome, or Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS II) would be the least likely diagnosis. The purpose of this paper is to educate individuals about Hunter Syndrome (MPS II).
This complication may occur if the spinal cord's surrounding membrane is torn or punctured, or if it ruptures. In many cases this complication is noticed during the spinal-cord surgery and corrected right away. However, if it is not corrected during surgery, it can lead to serious complications such as a spinal infection or chronic headaches, and will need an additional spinal-cord surgery to be corrected. Nerve Damage Nerve damage is a possible complication of spinal-cord surgery. This complication can occur during the surgery and one or more nerves can be affected.
Autonomic Dysreflexia following Spinal Cord Injury Anne Gunn 1/24/12 Intensive Care Unit at the VA Medical Center Attending: Dr. Clement Singarajah ABSTRACT: Autonomic dysreflexia (AD) is a serious condition that can occur at any time following a spinal cord injury at or above the level of T6, the location of splanchnic sympathetic outflow (1). It results in the loss of coordination on autonomic regulation, leading to uncontrolled heart rate, blood pressure and vascular tone. Prompt recognition and treatment of this condition is important due to the detrimental effects uncontrolled blood pressure can have on the body. It is important that patients with spinal cord injuries and those that care for them are aware of this syndrome and the urgency of seeking immediate medical attention. The etiology of autonomic dysreflexia includes a range of noxious stimuli including bowel obstruction, gastric or bladder distension, sexual activity, labor, bone injury and any disruption to visceral structures (2).
Traumatic Brain Injury Val Mateyshin Neurological Disorders OTH 1432C 02-04-2012 Traumatic brain injury, commonly referred to as TBI can seriously and or permanently alter life for a victim and a victim's family. Every 16 seconds in the United States, a person suffers a traumatic brain injury. This equals approximately 1.5 to 2 million traumatic brain injuries each year. TBI is the leading cause of death and disability among children and young adults. Even more alarming, is that traumatic brain injury occurs more frequently than breast cancer, HIV/AIDS infections, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord injuries combined (Dawodu, 2011).
Aortic dilatation can lead to a sudden tearing of the layers in the aorta wall (known as aortic dissection), allowing the blood to flow abnormally between the three layers. About twenty percent of people with thoracic aortic aneurysm have a genetic predisposition to it, it simply means it runs in the family. In the remainder cases, the abnormalities are thought that not inherited factors is the cause, such as tobacco use, injury, damage to the walls of the aorta from aging or a disease. The occurrence and timing of these aneurysm abnormalities may even vary within the same affected in the