Shark Attack Case Study

Savannah Brooks

Shark Attack Case Study

3/28/2016

1. Circulatory, skeletal, lymphatic, nervous, integumentary, and muscular.

2. Specific Bone: Humerus; Specific Muscles: Biceps, brachii, brachialis, triceps, tendon of the coracobrachialis or part of the brachioradialis; Specific Nerves: median nerve, ulnar nerve, radial nerve, musculocutaneous nerve, antebrachial cutaneous nerves; Specific Blood Vessels: Brachial artery, superior and inferior collateral artery, profunda brachii artery vein, and other venous tributiaries.

3. Lymphatic because the vessels are very small and hard to find. It would take too much time and they aren’t critical.

4. Ragged edges would make ends of blood vessels and nerves difficult to identify and put together, while clean edges would facilitate identification and reattachment.

5. To cut off the damaged area and to avoid stretching the severed blood vessels and nerves.

6. Flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, grasping, and mobility of individual fingers.

7. Decreased, because not all nerve fibers are reconnected or can regenerate.

8. Circulation of blood established through enlargement of minor vessels and anastomosis of vessels with those adjacent parts when a major vein or artery is functionally impaired.

9. Profunda brachii artery, radial artery, and anterior and posterior ulnar arteries

10. Sports, swimming, grasping and moving fingers, ADLs

11. Jim would not likely regain full use of his forearm and hand because not all of the nerve fibers would regenerate.

12. I would tell them that the body will try to repair itself by regenerating nerves but it can’t do that for all of them. We will try to reattach as many as we can and with the correct connection he should have full or mostly full use of it. If the nerves don’t connect there will be no recovery.

13. If the surgery were successful, the nerves would not recover as quickly and completely as the muscles because the nerves...