Immediate Seizures: Seizures that occur
within 24 hours of a traumatic brain injury.
Information Processing: The primary
purpose of the brain. Among its duties, the brain handles information,
examines incoming information from the senses, pays attention to what is
important, makes decisions and initiates response. This cycle applies to
information from the environment and the body. Any break in the cycle can
have profound consequences.
Input: The first stage of information
processing. Information travels through the senses to the brain from the
environment and internal organs of the body.
Intracerebral Hematoma: Bleeding
within the brain caused by damage to a major blood vessel.
Intracranial Pressure: Buildup of
pressure in the brain as a result of injury.
Intracranial Pressure: The exertion of
force within the brain by intracellular fluids capable of causing distortion
or displacement of cerebral structures or a reduction of cerebral blood
flow. Because the skull is a rigid container of brain tissue, blood and
cerebrospinal fluid, an increased volume of one component without an equal
decrease of another will result in ICP.
Ischemic Stroke: Stroke caused by the
formation of a clot that blocks blood flow through an artery to the brain.
