Special Senses: Injuries after an Explosion (Case Study Sample)
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A 42 year old male decides to try to break the world record of starting the hottest grill fire in history by pumping liquid oxygen into his grill. Needless to say he now has arrived surprisingly conscious in your ER with several issues due to the ensuing explosion.
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Answer the following questions and save your responses in a Microsoft Word document. Provide scholarly resources in APA format to support your answers.
1.The CT reveals several issues with the cranial structure, one of which might be in the cribriform plate but the image isn't well defined. What non-invasive test can you do to test if the cribriform plate is severely damaged? Why?
2.The doctor tests the patient's field of view with an astigmatism chart and finds that the patient states that there are blind spots and distorted lines in both eyes he never noticed before. These blinds spots and distortions remain constant. What structure within the eye could cause these distortions? How can you verify your suspicion?
3.Both his lungs have received some damage and both tympanic membranes have burst during the explosion. Why?
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Special Senses
Question 1
The part of the ethmoid bone located towards the back of the neck, which supports the brain, constitutes the cribriform plate. Since it serves as the roof of the nasal passage and offers support for the olfactory brain, any injury might result in a disruption in smell or a lack of scent. Cribiform fractures and damages inside the cribriform plate usually connect with cerebral spinal fluid leakage (CSF). Concerning the non-invasive examination to determine whether or not the cribriform vessel got substantially damaged in the case study, I will collect sinus and otic discharge samples from the patient and analyze them for levels of beta-2-transferrin and beta trace protein. Gomez and Pickup (2022) claim that the presence of beta trace protein and beta-2-transferrin, both of which are present and detected in high amounts in CSF, means that positive testing for
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