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Subarachnoid hemorrhages are classified into two general categories: traumatic and spontaneous.
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What are types of hemostasis?
Subarachnoid hemorrhages are classified into two general categories: traumatic and spontaneous.
How can subarachnoid hemorrhages be prevented?
Traumatic brain injury is the leading cause of subarachnoid hemorrhages, so it follows that efforts to prevent head injury would prevent these hemorrhages.
How often do subarachnoid hemorrhages happen?
The incidence of subarachnoid hemorrhage is 10 per 100,000 persons per year
What is the danger of subarachnoid hemorrhage?
The accumulation of blood in the subarachnoid space can lead to stroke, seizures, and other complications. Additionally, subarachnoid hemorrhages may cause permanent brain damage
What are the causes of a brain hemorrhage?
subarachnoid hemorrhages are caused by blood being released by a damaged blood vessel and accumulating in the subarachnoid space.
Why is heparin used as an anticoagulant in the treatment of thrombotic strokes but contraindicated in a subarachnoid hemorrhage?
Strokes are commonly caused by clots blocking a cerebral artery, and heparin would prevent more clots from forming. In contrast, you want clots to form in hemorrhages to stop the bleeding.
What are multiple retinal hemorrhages?
Multiple retinal hemorrhages-- Bleeding in the back of the eye.
What is the subarachnoid space?
The space between the arachnoid and pia mater is called the subarachnoid space
What contains a delicate network of collagen and elastin fibers through which cerebrospinal fluid circulates?
The arachnoid and sub-arachnoid spaces.
What are subarachnoid cisterns?
The areas in which the subarachnoid and pia maters are widely separated from each other leading to the widening of the subarachnoid space. Some of the examples are cisterna magna, pontine cistern, chiasmatic cistern and many others.
Does smoking make subarachnoid hemorrhage more likely?
Smoking is a major factor in increasing the odds of sustaining a subarachnoid hemorrhage
What happens to a person that hemorrhages?
they give birth
