Football Fanaticism
Author(s)
http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/collection/detail.html?case_id=362&id=362Pharmaceutical Sciences
St. Louis College of Pharmacy
dford@stlcop.edu
Abstract
A fight in a college town bar between the football player of one team and a drunken fan of a rival team results in a serious spinal cord injury. Students working in groups read the case and research the questions associated with it, which they then discuss in class. The case was designed to help pharmacy students understand the architecture of the central nervous system, its major motor/sensory tracts, the signs/symptoms of motor and sensory tract lesions, and the treatment of spinal cord injuries. It could be used in any course in which students have a basic knowledge of integrative physiology and have been exposed to the immune system, nervous system, and cardiovascular system, such as an undergraduate neuroscience course.
Objectives
- Describe the major tracts within the central nervous system that carry either sensory or motor information (including the type of information, origin, and destination).
- Describe some of the basic clinical signs/symptoms associated with interruption of these spinal tracts.
- Understand basic vital signs taken by clinicians (heart rate, blood pressure, etc.) and how they may be relevant to assessing a patient’s status.
- Explain the basics of treating a patient with a spinal cord injury.
- Understand that most treatments have undesirable side effects and explain how those side effects may be treated.
Keywords
Central nervous system; spinal cord trauma; spinal cord injury; ipsilateral motor loss; contralateral sensory loss; Babinski sign; Methylprednisolone; SolumedrolEducational Level
Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division, Professional (degree program)Format
PDFType Methods
DirectedLanguage
EnglishSubject Headings
Physiology Pharmacy / Pharmacology Neuroscience Anatomy
Date Posted
07/03/03Teaching Notes
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