07.08 Basilar Skull Fracture for CCRN Review
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General
- Basilar Skull fracture
- A broken bone in the base of the skull
- Symptoms
- Raccoon eyes = black eyes
- Battle sign- black and blue on the mastoid
- Bleeding behind eardrum
- Otorrhea – Cerebral Spinal Fluid leak from the ear
- Rhinorrhea – CSF leak from the nose
- Lose cranial nerve 1 = olfactory nerve
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