CT Case 020
A 35-year-old male presents after a workplace injury. He suffered a penetrating globe injury when a 7.5cm nail from a nail gun penetrated his right eye.
A 35-year-old male presents after a workplace injury. He suffered a penetrating globe injury when a 7.5cm nail from a nail gun penetrated his right eye.
35 yo female presents with left eye proptosis, left eyelid swelling and a divergent strabismus. A CT brain is performed.
A 55 yo women presents with altered level of consciousness and hypertension.
A CT brain is performed.
A 55-year-old lady presents with an abrupt drop in GCS following a severe occipital headache and vomiting for the preceding 24 hours.
A 75 yo female is found on the floor at home with reduced level of consciousness. She was last seen well over 12 hours prior.
A 70-year-old female presents with 12 hours duration of headache and progressive drowsiness. A CT brain is performed
A 35yo male background of liver cirrhosis secondary to alcohol excess is transferred from a peripheral hospital with suspected GI bleed.
A 2yo presents following fall from a chair. She has a GCS of 5 on arrival to ED. This child was intubated and taken for urgent CT brain.
A 55 year old male presents to ED with several hours of confusion. En route to hospital he has a self-terminating tonic-clonic seizure.
Gerrie Potgieter gives a fantastic 7 min intro into how to decipher a CT brain imaging.
The CT head scan is a computer-generated series of images from multiple X-rays taken at different levels. Fine X-ray beams passed through the subject are absorbed to different degrees by different tissues and the transmitted radiation is measured by a scanning device.
CT Head scan interpretation and differential diagnosis