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Texas Hypoxia Lawyer and Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer (Traumatic
Brain Injury and Lack of Oxygen
Law Suits)
Brain damage can be
caused by a traumatic head or brain injury or a lack of oxygen to the brain.
Lawsuits related to brain injuries or hypoxia can be caused by several reasons
such as smoke inhalation,
vehicle
accidents, medical malpractice,
drug
interactions,
construction
accidents, serious falls, or
carbon monoxide poisoning. Hypoxia,
lack of oxygen, and traumatic head injuries can cause death, comas, paralysis, limited
capacity, brain swelling, extreme pain, numbness, loss of
control of bodily functions, and loss of identity.
As a Texas Hypoxia and
Traumatic Brain
Injury lawyer, Jason Coomer helps families
seek compensation for negligence that results in traumatic
brain injuries and hypoxia
causing serious
brain damage to infants, children, or adults. If you or a loved one
has suffered a serious brain injury through the negligence
of another,
use our contact form to contact Texas Traumatic Brain
Injury and Hypoxia Lawyer, Jason Coomer, for a free review
of your potential claim or
send an e-mail to Austin Texas
Head Injury and Lack of Oxygen Brain Injury lawyer,
Jason Coomer.
Brain Death Injuries, Brain Death Claims, and Brain
Death Lawsuits
Brain death occurs when the brain stops
functioning altogether. A brain injury is suffered by
someone in America every 15
seconds. Each year, approximately
100,000 people die from traumatic brain injuries and about a
half of million more people suffer are permanent impairment.
It is estimated that approximately 5.5 million Americans are
living with a disability from a traumatic brain injury.
Handling Texas brain death lawsuits are
difficult personal injury lawsuits because of the
catastrophic damages that it causes in the lives of the
person's loved ones. In addition to dealing with the
grief of losing a loved one, there are often
guardianship issues,
living will, or estate
issues that have to be handled as well as being aware of
insurance adjusters and risk managers that may attempt to
take advantage of grieving family members to limit the
guilty defendant's liability.
Traumatic Brain Injuries, Traumatic Head Injury
Lawsuits, and Traumatic Brain
Injury Lawsuits
It is estimated that approximately 1.4
million people sustain a Traumatic Brain Injury each year in
the United States. Of these traumatic brain injuries,
50,000 people die; 235,000 people are hospitalized;
and 1.1 million people are treated and released from an
emergency department. The number of people with
Traumatic Brain Injury who are not seen in an emergency
department or who receive no care is unknown.
For people that have suffered traumatic
brain injuries, the last thing that they or their families
need while seeking medical treatment for the injured person
is to deal with insurance adjusters or risk managers making
unexpected telephone calls or visits to ask questions and
take recorded statements. For these families,
having an experienced Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer or
a Texas Hypoxia Lawyer protecting them and guiding them
through a lawsuit or insurance claim, can make a huge
difference.
Infant Brain Injury Lawsuits and Causes of Hypoxia
During Birth (Texas Birth Injury Hypoxia Brain Damage
Lawsuits)
Several reasons can cause an unborn child
to suffer hypoxia resulting in a brain injury during
the birthing process including a difficult labor,
unreasonable delay in performing a C-section, delay in
delivering an extremely large baby, gestational diabetes in
the mother, failure to properly and timely resuscitate the
baby, maternal or fetal bleeding complications, excessive
administration of Pitocin, and placenta previa. It is
important during any birth to have medical professionals
that are able to protect the safety of the mother and child
by not allowing any of these factors to become a problem. If
problems arise and these difficulties occur during the birth
of your child and the child sustains a brain injury, you may
want to contact a Texas Birth Injury Lawyer with the skill
and dedication to help you get the compensation.
Serious Brain Injury Claims and Texas Brain Damage
Lawsuits
Serious brain injuries can occur through
traumatic impact to the head caused by an
automobile accident,
serious fall, falling object,
construction accident, accidental gun shot,
boating accident, or a
vicious attack. Severe trauma to the head can cause the
brain to move inside the skull and injure the brain. The
skull typically protects the brain from injury, but because
the inside of the skull is rough a traumatic event that
causes the brain to move or to swell inside the skull can
cause the brain to press up against the skull and cause
serious brain damage.
Types Brain Injuries and Brain Damage
A subarachnoid
hemorrhage can be caused by trauma and is often described as
the worst headache you can have. A subarachnoid hemorrhage
is bleeding between the middle membrane covering of the
brain and the brain itself. Specifically it occurs within
the cerebrospinal fluid-filled spaces surrounding the brain
(also known as the subarachnoid space).
Subdural hematomas are usually the result
of a serious head injury. When they occur from head trauma,
it is called an "acute" subdural hematoma. Acute subdural
hematomas are among the deadliest of all head injuries. The
bleeding fills the skull area very rapidly, leaving little
room for the brain, and are associated with brain injuries.
Subdural hematomas can occur after a very
minor head injury, especially in the elderly. The subdural
hematomas go unnoticed for many days or many weeks, and are
called "chronic" subdural hematomas. During a subdural
hematoma, tiny veins between the surface of the brain and
its outer covering (the dura) stretch and tear, allowing
blood to collect. In the elderly, the veins are often
already stretched because of brain atrophy (shrinkage).
There are several types of brain
injuries. Two common types of head injuries are Concussion,
the most common type of traumatic brain injury and a
Contusion, which is a bruise on the brain. Concussions are
fairly common and can occur with any blow to the head,
whether or not unconsciousness occurs. If someone has
received a blow to the head, they should be watched closely
for signs of possible brain damage. Things to watch for
include repeated vomiting, unequal pupils, confused mental
state or varying levels of consciousness, seizure-like
activity, weakness on one side of the body or the inability
to wake up (coma). If any of these signs are present,
immediately call your health care provider.
More severe brain injuries can result in
unconsciousness, vegetative states, limited capacity, or a
coma that can last for days, weeks, months, years, or are
permanent. More severe brain injuries can result in brain
death and death.
A coma is a state in which the person
seems to be asleep but cannot be woken up and does not
respond to stimuli or offer any reaction. A person can
remain in a coma for days, weeks, months, even years, and in
some cases never come out of the coma.
A Vegetative state is where the person is
unable to react with the environment although he or she can
still feel and recognize stimuli. The body of someone in
this state will still react to sensations by way of
perspiration, heart rate, etc. but the patient my not react
outwardly. If this condition lasts for more than one month,
it is known as a persistent vegetative state.
A limited capacity state is where a
person that has suffered a traumatic brain injury is no
longer in a vegetative state or coma. However, as the name
suggests, responses from the person does not have the brain
or neurological capacity that they had prior to the brain
injury. Reasoning, movement, and other basic functions or
emotions are no longer available. It can take years of
therapy and medical treatment to recover all or part of the
person's abilities.
Locked in syndrome is a condition where
the person is unable to move any part of their body except
for the eyes. The person’s consciousness and emotions remain
intact but the person is unable to make any physical
movement other than eye movements and blinking. This is a
rare neurological condition.
Medical Malpractice Severe Brain Injury Claims
Severe brain damage can be caused by
a lack of oxygen getting to the brain, a
hemorrhage inside the brain,
or damage to the skull. These serious brain injury claims
can occur because of
medical negligence when careless health care providers
do not provide proper monitoring of patients, prescribe
incorrect drug combinations, do not recognize fetal
distress, or fail to recognize a patient has stopped
breathing. Through drug interactions or respiratory
failure, lack of oxygen to the brain can cause severe and
permanent brain injuries.
Texas Brain Damage Lawsuits and Texas Brain Injury
Lawyers
Traumatic brain injury
lawyer, Jason Coomer handles a variety of Texas personal
injury lawsuits including automobile accident claims (car
wrecks, truck collisions, bus collisions, run over
bicyclists, and motorcycle accidents); serious falls;
falling objects, electrocutions; fires; smoke inhalation;
toxic exposure; industrial accidents; misuse of equipment;
falling objects; explosions; and shattered glass.
Please feel free to
contact
The Law Offices of Jason S. Coomer for additional
information on serious head trauma claims and Texas brain injury
lawsuits. Don't think that if you have suffered a serious
head trauma or a person you love has suffered a severe brain
injury that a responsible party either big business or
insurance company is going to voluntarily tell you about all
the insurance coverage they have or pay you money for all
the damages you have suffered. In fact many businesses and
insurance companies will hire adjusters and defense lawyers
to limit any money that they have to pay. The last thing a
person wants or needs to be doing after a catastrophic head
injury is to battle big insurance and their litigation team
to make them take care of the damages that they have
caused. It helps having an experienced personal injury
lawyer help you calculate damages including past medical
bills, future medical expenses, pharmacy bills, therapy
bills, lost wages, future lost wages, lost earning capacity,
damage to career or business, pain & suffering, mental
anguish, physical impairment, disfigurement, and other
damages that you have suffered.
Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Lawsuits, Texas Head
Injury Lawyer, and Texas Traumatic Brain Injury
Lawyers
Texas
Head Injury Lawyer,
Jason Coomer, commonly works on Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Lawsuits,
Texas Head Injury Lawsuits, and Texas Hypoxia Lawsuits
with other experienced Texas Head Injury Lawyers and Texas
Traumatic Brain Injury
Lawyers including Houston head trauma lawyers, Houston brain injury lawyers,
Houston Brain
Trauma Lawyers, San Antonio
Brain Injury Lawyers, San Antonio Traumatic Head Injury
Lawyers, Dallas Brain Trauma Lawyers, Dallas Brain Injury
Lawyers, and other catastrophic injury lawyers to
make sure that his clients are provided the best legal teams
possible for their Texas Brain Injury Law Suit, Texas Brain
Damage Lawsuit, Texas Traumatic Head Injury Lawsuit, or
Catastrophic Injury Claim. He also commonly works with
other lawyers throughout the United States on catastrophic
brain injury lawsuits.
If you need to file a Texas
Traumatic Head Injury Lawsuit or a Texas Brain
Injury Lawsuit, feel free to contact
Texas
Brain Injury Lawyer and Texas Hypoxia Lawyer Jason Coomer for a free review of
your Texas Brain Injury Lawsuit. For a free evaluation
of your personal injury claims,
contact The Law Offices of Jason S. Coomer. Please
include your name, the date of the accident, location of
accident, the type of injuries suffered, and a brief
description on how the injuries were suffered.
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