Aneurysms and Cerebral Vascular Accidents

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Aneurysms and Cerebral Vascular Accidents
The brain is the most complex organ in the human body, but perhaps the most remarkable. Our brain is the primary control center, containing billions of nerves that can simultaneously process information from our bodies, operate organs, generate emotions and thoughts, recall and store memories, and controls movement. The brain also contains a lot of blood vessels that feeds the brain with oxygenated blood to keep it going. It something happens to your brain that cuts off the blood flow, your brain will only be able to survive four to six minutes. Even with the brain having several layers to help protect it, it can be injured. Brain injuries can come in various ways with the most common being blunt force trauma. Brain injuries can happen even without blunt force trauma, like aneurysms and cerebral vascular accidents. Aneurysms and CVA happen with or without trauma, but there are several treatment options for it.
Your head has several layers that protect the brain. The first layer you could consider for protection in most people is your hair. Of course some people don’t have hair, so the next protection is the skin. Now to the main protection which is the skull or cranium. Your skull, which is hard bone, is the best protection for any penetrating or blunt force trauma that may accord. It also serves to contain your brain from moving a lot. The cranium consists of four bones: the frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital (back). In pediatrics, people have to become extra careful with head injuries. Pediatrics baby’s skull is still soft and not fully fused together. Baby’s anterior fontanel will usually fuse together around the age of nine to eighteen months, where the posterior fontanel ...

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