Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 201
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 201, courtesy of Dr Hakan Yaman from RFDS.
Question 1
What is the rate of severe permanent TBI in the Asterix comics, 0%, 25%, 50% or 90%?
http://www.asterix.com/the-collection/albums/asterix-and-the-picts.html
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0%.
Although over half of head-injury victims had a severe initial impairment of consciousness, no case of death or permanent neurological deficit was found.
The largest group of head-injured characters was constituted by Romans (63.9%), while Gauls caused nearly 90% of the TBIs. A helmet had been worn by 70.5% of victims but had been lost in the vast majority of cases (87.7%). In 83% of cases, TBIs were caused under the influence of a doping agent called “the magic potion”. [Reference]
Question 2
In the original paper describing GCS scoring, how and where was the painful stimulus applied?
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A pencil to the fingernail [Reference]
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five asterix CRP Death dying Felty's syndrome fingernail GCS head injury hospital Pain pencil RA rheumatoid arthritis TBI Source Type: blogs
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