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What amount force would be required for massive cranial hemorrhaging to occur?

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Dr. Joseph Pfeifer answered

Specializes in Trauma Surgery

Depends: Sometimes in the elderly, only a small blow to the head, just a bump really, can set off subdural bleeding, which can grow slowly or quickly. For healthy young adults substantial force is required, blunt object, fall from height. However, the effects of a small amount of bleeding in the brain of young person can worse than in elderly, whose brains have shrunk & don't get the high pressures.

Answered 6/18/2014

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