A text-book of first aid and emergency treatment . )y afragment of a bone, as occasionally happens in fracture ofthe skull, or if a small vessel inside the skull bleeds and theescaped blood, confined within the bony cavity, causespressure on the brain, the result is known as compression of. Fig. -Perforating bullet wound of the head with wound of exit showingbrain protrusion. (Park.) the brain. In more severe cases the brain substance may betorn and severely injured, this condition being known aslaceration of the brain. These conditions, together withconcussion, are sometimes spoken of a
A text-book of first aid and emergency treatment . )y afragment of a bone, as occasionally happens in fracture ofthe skull, or if a small vessel inside the skull bleeds and theescaped blood, confined within the bony cavity, causespressure on the brain, the result is known as compression of. Fig. -Perforating bullet wound of the head with wound of exit showingbrain protrusion. (Park.) the brain. In more severe cases the brain substance may betorn and severely injured, this condition being known aslaceration of the brain. These conditions, together withconcussion, are sometimes spoken of as intracranial injury,a rather loose diagnosis which indicates simply that the brainhas been injured, without designating the particular type ofinjury present. After a blow on the head the first-aid worker isinterestedchiefly in deciding whether there have been any serious conse- 196 REGION A L I .\J URIES qiicnces or wliether the condition is sini])U concussion whichwill (juickly i)ass away. In most hospitals it is made a standini; Iulc to keep everyhead injury under observation for several hours, to lie cer-tain that no serious injury is present. Symptoms.—^^he mildest cases show only concussion withsymptoms which clear up within a few minutes. INIoresevere cases show the sympto
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