As we all knows due to increase in number of vehicles & type / variety of vehicles , number of head injury cases along with with neck injuries are on rise on road as compare to previous era. Safety rules / regulations , kind of roads / traffic congestion , type of vehicles & their speed , drugs / alcohol / certain medical diseases are major cause of road side accidents . Head injury/ trauma patients can present as open skull or closed skull injury , may be conscious or in unconscious state in emergency or patient can suddenly die on road after accident due to brain stem injury.
As we all knows skull rest atlas vertebra & has no body of its own compared to other neck vertebras . Lower part medulla oblongata passe through foramen magnum & then the vertebtral canal of atlas vertebrae & called as spinal cord . This lower part of brain stem has respiratory regulating centers…
