~ I am a little confused here myself...
They were treating a traumatic brain injury here???
It says "cerebral edema (brain swelling) rotational artifact (a "blip" on the CT) and possible C-5 abnormality...
C-5 refers to both the spine and cord...giving the suspected location of the injury it's at the 5th cervical vertibra...
pg 2 2nd paragraph
"He was found to have head trauma and transferred to Rady's..."
pg 4
He had a frontal and vertex skull fracture..."
"He had
non reactive pupils and decordicated posturing..." - that IMO is more from a brain injury not a spinal one... a C-5 injury could be in addition to a traumatic brain injury but in and of itself would not cause non reactive pupils and posturing....
Frontal skull fracture... he HAD to land on his forehead!
sad skills with trying to show what I mean but...
Say the black area is the floor....
and his forehead hit first his body would have bent to cause the
trauma...
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