jessie quiz

What happens in a Primary injury?

• Mechanical trauma to spinal cord results in tissue necrosis and

  loss of function

• Loss of autoregulation of blood supply

• Mechanical trauma to spinal cord results in hematomas and

  loss of function

• Axons damaged directly by physical deformation of spinal cord

What can occur in a Secondary injury?

• loss of phosphorus and other electrolyte imbalance

• Petechial hemorrhages

• subdural hemorrhage

• Ischemia

Free radical release and Inflammation are correlated with...

• Tetraplegia

• Primary Injury

• Secondary Injury

• flexion-rotation

List what can appear in secondary injury

Loss of autoregulation of blood supply is in relation to primary injury

• true

• false

Cause further axonal damage and neurological deficits is in relation to secondary injury

• false

• true

Classification of injury is divided into four parts:

• Level, Strength, Degree, Pain

• Function, Stability, Degree, Mechanism

• Level, Stability, Degree, Mechanism

• Level, Strength, Damage, Function

Level of spinal column:

Status of stability:

Degree of injury: