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Responding to Head Injuries

July 11, 2009 By Steve Whitehead 6 Comments
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Part one of a three part series. It seems that after the tragic deaths of both Natasha Richardson and Billy Mays, head injuries have been getting a lot of play time in the media. Richardson died of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Knowledge Tagged With: axonal injuries, axonal injury, basilar skull fracture, cerebellum, cerebrospinal fluid, cerebrum, closed head injury, contusions, coup-contra-coup, depressed skull fracture, EMT, head injury, hypothalamus, intracranial hemorrhage, medulla, midbrain, petechial hemorrhaging, pons, skull fracture, thalamus, unconsciousness

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