Head Injury 101 "There's Always Hope"

Head Injury 101

Prevention, Treatment & Recovery.

“There’s Always Hope”

Why this blog ?

Head injury is common in most developed and developing countries. The impact of head injury to those affected can be devastating, ranging from minor disturbance to total dependency on care takers.

Head Injury often happen when we are not prepared, accident strike at the time where no one is ready for it.It is my hope that this blog provide a platform to share information in the Prevention, Treatment and Recovery of the head injured.

Hopefully,  HeadInjury101 is able to take you through the journey of those who suffered head injury and hopefully HeadInjury101 can disseminate information and contribute in the fight against this dreaded “endemic” especially here.

Better understanding of this problem hopefully will reduce its impact on modern society.

I strongly hope there will be more who are willing to take up the effort, using this as the platform to handle issue pertaining to head injury.

So what is head injury?

The human head is an important shield for our precious organ—THE BRAIN.
Head injury often occur when a kinetic energy is transmitted to the head, this commonly occur during road traffic accident (RTA), fall from height, contact sport, assault to the head and etc.
Multiple structures could be affected by this kinetic force and subsequently injured. The skull could be fractured; its covering scalp could be lacerated, the brain covering aka meninges torn, and the brain contused or concussion could occur.

For those who are interested in reading more bout head injury the link below is a good read.
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/head_injury/article_em.htm

The consequences of the injury and its symptom could range from the mild form of concussion to total dependence post head injury, and death.

CT Scan of the head injury.
 from left to right: bifrontal & right temporal contusions, occipital contusions and large left extradural hematoma.

What’s up?

For the coming few posts will try to upload topics such as “Care of Severe Head Injured Patient”, “Nutrition for the Head Injured”, “Nasogastric Tube Insertion and Care”, “Symptoms & Complications of Head Injury”. if you have any topic of interest  suggest do leave a comment below or you would like to to contribute a post kindly email to headinjury101@gmail.com. Thanks