An Ohio Brain Injury Attorney Needs To Know More Than Just The Law.

The moment we get the call that someone we love was in a serious accident, we immediately pray to let our loved one live. Some times when our prayers are answered, it comes with a steep cost – the life left to our love one is not much of a life at all. Serious traumatic brain injuries will let us hug and hold our loved ones, but the person we knew; the person we laughed with; or debated politics with is gone forever. Beyond the staggering emotional impact, a spouse is not only left to attempt to replace the lost earnings of a debilitated partner and essentially raise a family alone – but is now further required to provide the extensive attention needed by the injured love one. The impact to a parent’s life after a child suffers a brain injury is even more pronounced and devastating. At The Spitz Law Firm, you will be represented by a Cleveland brain injury lawyer that not only knows the law, but understands the emotionally devastating effect on your life. With everything that is going on, you need the right brain injury attorney to help you.

According to the Center for Disease Control, approximately 1.4 million people suffer brain injuries every year in the United States, of which 50,000 die and 235,000 are hospitalized. The Center for Disease Control further reports that there are currently 5.3 Americans that need help performing their daily activities because of brain injuries.

A Brain injury can result in loss of intellectual capacity, paralysis, memory issues, severe headaches, depression, weakness, loss of body function, speech impairment and loss coordination. Following brain injuries, victims’ sense of sight, sound, taste, touch and smell can suffer a decrease or increase in sensitivity, or a complete loss altogether. Additionally, a brain injury can substantially change the personality of a loved one – making a previously happy go lucky person into a short-tempered spiteful person. A previously active person can become perpetually fatigued after a brain injury. But, the affects of a brain injury largely depend on the severity of the injury, and the location of the affected part of the brain. There are two primary classifications of brain injuries, traumatic and anoxic. Both types of brain injuries can have devastating effects.

Traumatic brain injury, also referred to as TBI, is damage to the brain resulting from a sudden physical force. Traumatic brain injuries are typically sub-divided into two categories. If the trauma results in damage to the skull itself, such as a crack or break, the trauma is considered a penetrating head injury. More difficult to diagnose are closed head injuries, where the skull is not obviously damaged but the brain is still injured. This occurs when a blow or impact causes severe back-and-forth shaking, such as whiplash. In turn, the brain, suspended in cerebrospinal fluid, is thrust into interior of the skull, which, unlike the exterior of the skull, is ribbed and contains bony structures. The impact or impacts can result in bruising or tearing of the microfibers that make up the brain. As a result, brain injury occurs.

While blunt trauma to the skull is the most common cause of traumatic brain injury, prolonged lack of oxygen, or the anoxic (also called hypoxic) brain injury, also can have equally severe and life threatening consequences. Brain cells are vulnerable to severe damage because of the brain’s high-energy consumption and lack of energy storage. The brain makes up two percent of the body’s weight, but it uses up 20 percent of the total body oxygen consumption and 15 percent of the cardiac output. Brain cells require a constant flow of oxygen. A reduction in oxygen supplied to the brain, even though there is adequate blood flow, is referred to as hypoxia. The decreased blood flow to the brain, and therefore less oxygen going to the brain, is called ischemia. Hypoxia or ischemia will cause brain cell damage in normal metabolic conditions.

Anoxic or hypoxic brain damage can occur in the following manner: 10 to 20 seconds after cerebral blood flow (blood flow to the brain) ceases, unconsciousness occurs. Unconsciousness is followed almost immediately by a flat EEG (electroencephalogram). In 80 seconds, the pupils become fixed and dilated. Five minutes after the blood flow ceases, it is generally believed that irreversible brain damage begins, but the precise point at which reversible brain damage becomes irreversible is not currently know, and may differ under varying circumstances. Handling traumatic brain injury cases not only requires legal expertise, but medical experts to substantiate the claims and to testify ably at trial.

Your brain injury lawyer at The Spitz Law Firm, has a nationwide bank of such experts with the ability to evaluate all types of brain injury and present qualified medical expert opinion at trial together with the diagnosis, prognosis, and causal connection of the injury to the subject accident. We also have our selected team of economists who are prepared to evaluate and project future loss as well as current and prior economic loss. Let us put our resources to work for you and your loved ones right now. Call the right attorney. Call The Spitz Law Firm.

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