Open AccessTraumatic shock and altered mentality following motor vehicle accident
Author(s) -
Park Youngeun,
Yu Byungchul,
Lee Giljae,
Lee Jungnam
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
hong kong journal of emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.145
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2309-5407
pISSN - 1024-9079
DOI - 10.1177/1024907920913657
Subject(s) - medicine , vehicle accident , computed tomography , cervical spine , emergency department , occipital bone , dissociation (chemistry) , surgery , skull , psychiatry , chemistry
Traumatic atlanto‐occipital dislocation is associated with significant mortality and morbidity. We present an 18‐year‐old female who visited the emergency department after a motor vehicle accident. A cervical spine computed tomography scan showed the postero‐inferior atlanto‐occipital dissociation and several diagnostic methods coincided with the diagnosis of atlanto‐occipital dislocation.