Skull base fracture symptoms?

summary

People with skull base fractures must be unfortunate. Most skull base fractures are caused by violence and belong to violence. Most of the skull base fractures are linear fractures, some are depressed fractures, often involving the orbital plate and ethmoid bone of the frontal bone, causing bleeding to flow out through the anterior nostril; When the meninges are ruptured, cerebrospinal fluid can flow out from the anterior nostril through frontal or ethmoid sinuses to form cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea. Air can also enter the cranial cavity through this way to form intracranial pneumatosis. Ethmoid plate and optic canal fracture can cause olfactory nerve and optic nerve injury. What symptom does skull base fracture have to tell everybody.

Skull base fracture symptoms?

First, skull base fracture is caused by a variety of reasons in several weak areas of the skull base fracture. Most of the skull base fractures are combined fractures of skull cap and skull base, and most of them are linear fractures. Skull base fracture is usually closed injury, fracture itself does not need special treatment, mainly for intracranial, skull base serious concurrent injury and prevention of infection. Skull base fracture and various brain trauma should be differentiated.

Second: generally for patients with traumatic brain injury, nurses tend to be alert to the symptoms and signs of high intracranial pressure, but they don't pay enough attention to low intracranial pressure. It's worth noting that when a large number of cerebrospinal fluid leaks, it can lead to low intracranial pressure. Patients show symptoms of indifference, headache, dizziness, blurred vision, reduced urine volume, etc.

Third: the cause of the occurrence, skull cap fracture from the extension. Violence acts on the nearby skull base plane, resulting in head crush injury, and the skull is generally bent and deformed by violence. In individual cases, when the head is impacted vertically on the top or falls from a height, the buttocks touch the ground. It mainly aims at the severe concurrent injury of intracranial and skull base and the prevention of infection.

matters needing attention

Diet nursing: the diet of patients with skull base fracture should be rich in nutrition and easy to digest. Should not eat stimulating and hard, need to chew hard food, diet should be rich in high protein and rich vitamins, eat more vegetables, fruits and so on.