Question

due Apr 22 possible Week 13 Discussion 3 Jillian is thrown from a horse. She strikes the ground with her chin, causing severe hyperextension of the neck. Emergency medical technicians properly immobilize her neck and transport her to a hospital, but she dies 5 minutes after arrival. An autopsy shows multiple fractures of vertebrae C1, C6, and C7 and extensive damage to the spinal cord. Explain why she died rather than being left a quadriplegic. You must construct your answer before you may read and respond to any of your classmate's replies. This will ensure that you are not influenced by their reply

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Why she died rather than being left quadriplegic?

The injury at C1 perhaps caused so much spinal cord damage there as to interrupt signals to the phrenic nerves of the diaphragm. Therefore, that causes respiratory paralysis.