Symptoms of Automobile accidents injury
Symptoms of Automobile accidents injury
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- Battle's sign
- "Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition)" (2006)
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- Battle's sign
- "Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series" (2007)
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Blunt and penetrating abdominal injuries:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Symptoms vary with the degree of injury and the organs damaged. Penetrating abdominal injuries cause obvious wounds (gunshots commonly produce both entrance and exit wounds) with variable blood loss, pain, and tenderness. They commonly result in pallor, cyanosis, tachycardia, shortness of breath, and hypotension. (See Projectile pathway.)Blunt abdominal injuries cause severe pain (which may radiate beyond the abdomen to the shoulders), bruises, abrasions, contusions, or distention. They may also result in tenderness, abdominal splinting or rigidity, nausea, vomiting, pallor, cyanosis, tachycardia, and shortness of breath. Rib fractures commonly accompany blunt injuries. (See Effects of blunt abdominal trauma, page 300.)
In both blunt and penetrating injuries, massive blood loss may cause hypovolemic shock. Damage to solid abdominal organs (liver, spleen, pancreas, and kidneys) generally causes hemorrhage. Damage to hollow organs (stomach, intestine, gallbladder, and bladder) causes rupture and release of the organs’ contents (including bacteria) into the abdomen, which in turn produces inflammation and, possibly, infection.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Spinal injuries:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
The most obvious symptoms of spinal injury are muscle spasm and back pain that worsen with movement. In cervical fractures, pain may produce point tenderness; in dorsal and lumbar fractures, it may radiate to other body areas such as the legs. After mild injuries, symptoms may be delayed for several days or weeks. If the injury damages the spinal cord, clinical effects range from mild paresthesia to quadriplegia and shock.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Traumatic amputation:
Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
The obvious sign of amputation is a body part that has been cut off. Every traumatic amputee requires careful monitoring of vital signs. If amputation involves more than a finger or toe, assessment of airway, breathing, and circulation is also required. Because profuse bleeding is likely, watch for signs of hypovolemic shock, and draw blood for a hemoglobin level, hematocrit, and type and crossmatch. In partial amputation, check for pulses distal to the amputation site. After any traumatic amputation, assess for other traumatic injuries as well. The patient may exhibit crushed body tissue, in which the body part is badly mangled but still partially attached by muscle, bone, tendon, or skin.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Spinal injuries:
Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)
The most obvious symptom of spinal injury is muscle spasm and back pain that worsens with movement. In cervical fractures, pain may produce point tenderness; in dorsal and lumbar fractures, it may radiate to other body areas such as the legs.
If the injury damages the spinal cord, clinical effects range from mild paresthesia to quadriplegia and shock. After milder injuries, such symptoms may be delayed for several days or weeks. During this time, the patient may unknowingly aggravate the condition
CLINICAL TIP: Because the diaphragm is innervated by cervical levels 1 to 4, damage to this level will result in respiratory compromise. Also, be aware of edema at levels C5 to C7, which may expand up into these areas, resulting in problems.
Complications
The following are complications of spinal injuries: autonomic dysreflexia, spinal shock, and neurogenic shock.
Also known as autonomic hyperreflexia, autonomic dysreflexia is a serious medical condition that occurs after resolution of spinal shock. Emergency recognition and management is a must. Suspect autonomic dysreflexia in the patient with a history of spinal cord trauma at level T6 and above who exhibits cold or goose-fleshed skin below the lesion level, bradycardia, and hypertension. The hypertension is generally accompanied by severe, pounding headache.
Some dysreflexia is caused by noxious stimuli, most commonly a distended bladder or skin lesion. Treatment focuses on eliminating the stimulus; rapid identification and removal may avoid the need for pharmacologic control of the headache and hypertension.
Spinal shock is the loss of autonomic, reflex, motor, and sensory activity below the level of the cord lesion. It occurs secondary to damage of the spinal cord. Signs of spinal shock include flaccid paralysis, loss of deep tendon and perianal reflexes, and loss of motor and sensory function.
Until spinal shock has resolved (usually 1 to 6 weeks after injury), the extent of actual cord damage can’t be assessed. The earliest indicator of spinal shock resolution is the return of reflex activity.
This temporary loss of autonomic function below the level of injury produces cardiovascular changes. Signs of neurogenic shock include orthostatic hypotension, bradycardia, and loss of the ability to sweat below the level of the lesion. This abnormal vasomotor response occurs secondary to disruption of sympathetic impulses from the brain stem to the thoracolumbar area and is seen most commonly in cervical cord injury.
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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003
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