Head and Brain Injury Claims *
You have to think of the brain as you would a computer processor which controls a computer as it is the central processing unit of the body. All the time it receives impulses from the senses about what is happening inside and outside the body. It processes these impulses and expedited instructions that control the functions of the body and stimulate its actions. It memorises data from your past experiences, which makes your memories and facilitates learning. Thoughts, senses, moods and emotions all originate in the brain.
The brain is very different to the fracture of a leg or an arm, which is fairly easy to diagnose with a CT scan or an X-ray machine, a brain injury is very different and a brain injury is often labeled as a very difficult diagnosis and as a result it is not unusual for brain injuries to remain undiagnosed even after changes to someone’s character and temperament. The simple fact is that when things are wrong in your brain the effects can be devastating, not just for the injured person but also for their family, friends and colleagues.
The brain is very different to the fracture of a leg or an arm, which is fairly easy to diagnose with a CT scan or an X-ray machine, a brain injury is very different and a brain injury is often labeled as a very difficult diagnosis and as a result it is not unusual for brain injuries to remain undiagnosed even after changes to someone’s character and temperament.
The simple fact is that when things are wrong in your brain the effects can be devastating, not just for the injured person but also for their family, friends and colleagues.
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A brain injury suffered in an adult may be the result of different types of negligent medical treatment. These include:
- Delaying brain treatment can result in a number of negative things happening to the brain that can cause irrevocable damage to it. A brain hemorrhage or even a stroke may result in material brain damage. Delays in brain treatment is often not good and the faster the treatment the better the possible result. If brain damage is not treated promptly, the result can be catastrophic.
- Often the wrong medication, or the wrong dose, given to a patient may have consequences in a brain injury.
- The most common cause of brain injury relates to the restriction of oxygen to the brain whilst undergoing another procedure, usually under anesthetic.
- Undergoing neurosurgery will always carry a risk of further injury and often when this happens, there has been no negligence.
- Brain injury as a result of an accident can happen anywhere and at anytime and the level of impact on the brain to create a disastrous head injury may be relatively little.
- Yearly there are many thousands of admissions to our A&E departments due to accidents that have been the cause of a possible brain injury. A lot of those accidents were a result of someone’s negligence occurred in a road traffic accident or as a result workplace accident, or a trip, slip or fall in a public place. For example a wet floor can cause a slip, trip or fall in a shop or a restaurant.
- A slight or major trauma to one’s head may result in a dangerous brain injury and not just a bad trauma. Violent motion that causes the brain to twirl inside the skull may cause irreparable damage to the brain. In a bicycling accident, the cyclist’s head just needs minimal contact with a motor vehicle or a wall or the road surface at speed that causes the brain to twirl causing severe damage to the brain itself.
- In other situations, the personal injury can only cause minor damage to the brain, but at the same time it can cause the flow of blood and oxygen that will cause another, equally catastrophic result.
Clearly. There is a lot of mystery that surrounds the brain.
Gary Matthews Solicitors
Medical negligence solicitors, Dublin
We help people every day of the week (weekends and bank holidays included) that have either been injured or harmed as a result of an accident or have suffered from negligence or malpractice.
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