4N051 SSgt WAPS - Full SKT 2025/2026
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Anterograde (Posttraumatic) Amnesia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Inability to remember
events after an injury.
Basilar Skull Fractures - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Usually occur following diffuse impact to
the head (such as falls, motor vehicle crashes); generally result from extension of a
linear fracture to the base of the skull and can be difficult to diagnose with a
radiograph (x-ray).
Battle's Sign - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bruising behind an ear over the mastoid process
that may indicate a skull fracture.
Cerebral Edema - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Swelling of the brain.
Closed Head Injury - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Injury in which the brain ahs been injured
but the skin has not been broken and there is no obvious bleeding.
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Concussion - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A temporary loss or alteration of part of all of the
brain's abilities to function without actual physical damage to the brain.
Connecting Nerves - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Nerves in the spinal cord that connect the
motor and sensory nerves.
Coup-Contrecoup Injury - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Dual impacting of the brain into the
skull; coup injury occurs at the point of impact; Contrecoup injury occurs on the
opposite side of impact, as the brain rebounds.
Distraction - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the action of pulling the spine along its length.
Epidural Hematoma - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An accumulation of blood between the skull
and the dura mater.
Eyes-Forward Position - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A head position in which the patient's
eyes are looking straight ahead and the head and torso are in line.
Four-Person Log Roll - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The recommended procedure for moving a
patient with a suspected spinal injury from the ground to a long backboard.
Intervertebral Disk - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The cushion that lies between two vertebrae.
Intracerebral Hematoma - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bleeding within the brain tissue
(parenchyma) itself; also referred to as an intraparenchymal hematoma.
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ICP - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Intracranial Pressure.
Intracranial Pressure (ICP) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The pressure within the cranial vault.
Involuntary Activities - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Actions of the body that are not under a
person's conscious control.
Linear Skull Fractures - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Account for 80% of skull fractures; also
referred to as nondisplaced skull fractures; commonly occur in the temporal-
parietal region of the skull; not associated with deformities to the skull.
Meninges - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Three distinct layers of tissue that surround and protect
the brain and the spinal cord within the skull and the spinal canal.
Open Head Injury - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Injury to the head often caused by a
penetrating object in which there may be bleeding and exposed brain tissue.
Primary (Direct) Injury - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An injury to the brain and its associated
structures that is a direct result of impact to the head.
Raccoon Eyes - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bruising under the eyes that may indicate a skull
fracture.
Retrograde Amnesia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The inability to remember events leading up
to a head injury.
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Secondary (Indirect) Injury - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The "after effects" of the primary
injury; includes abnormal processes such as cerebral edema, increased intracranial
pressure, cerebral ischemia and hypoxia, and infection; onset is often delayed
following the primary brain injury.
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bleeding into the subarachnoid space,
where the cerebrospinal fluid circulates.
Subdural Hematoma - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An accumulation of blood beneath the dura
mater but outside the brain.
Subluxation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A partial or incomplete dislocation.
TBI - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A traumatic insult to the brain
capable of producing physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and vocational
changes.
Voluntary Activities - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Actions that we consciously perform, in
which sensory input or conscious thought determines a specific muscular activity.
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