Traumatic Brain Injuries

Los Angeles Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Attorneys

Table Of Content

• Traumatic brain injury
• Primary and secondary brain injury
• Personal injury lawyer

What is a Traumatic brain injury?

A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) occurs when a sudden, external physical accident, such as motor vehicle accidents, sports activities, oxygen deprivation, or a blow to the head or similar force causes damage to the brain. Specifically, head trauma or violent shaking of the skull can cause shearing (or tearing) of microscopic nerve fibers in the brain. Brain injuries with shearing can cause mild, moderate, or severe disruption and disability in brain function such as memory loss, and in extreme cases, death. Brain injuries from head trauma affect people across the nation, and patients require emergency care during these circumstances, which cause symptoms from mild concussions to a severe injury resulting in memory loss, personality changes and pronounced personality disorders, coma or even death.

What are the Different Types of Brain Injury?

Closed Brain Injury: often referred to as a “Closed Head Injury”, a closed brain injury occurs from traumatic brain injury without breaking the skull. These brain injuries frequently occur with a rapid forward or backward movement that shake head and brain, which results in bruising and tearing of brain tissue and blood vessels. Closed brain injuries are often caused by car accidents, oxygen deprivation falls, or a blow to the head from physical events such as sports activities which can unfortunately result in death. Contact experienced trial lawyers like those at Eisenberg Law Group to help successfully litigate your closed brain injury case and achieve all verdicts you expect.

Penetrating Brain Injury: brain injuries such as these are referred to as an “Open Head Injury”, a penetrating brain injury victims experience from a blow to the head or similar accident that causes skull fractures, such as those that form when a bullet pierces the brain.

Primary and secondary brain injury

Primary brain injury: a brain injury such as this occurs immediately after an accident and results in loss of consciousness. Rather than accidents that involve circumstances such as oxygen prevention, blow to the head from a primary brain injury causes victims to experience symptoms that include skull fracture, contusions, concussions, lacerations & diffuse axonal injury, and death. These brain injuries happen in minutes, some in up to an hour, so it’s important to receive quickly receive emergency care for recovery and contact a brain injury attorney.

Secondary brain injury: depending on the circumstances, results from this traumatic brain injury evolve in all patients over a period of time, which can be hours, days, or even months. An indirect result from the accident that causes a primary head injury, secondary brain injuries and related trauma cause symptoms such as ischemia, hypoxia from oxygen deprivation, loss of consciousness, hypo/hypertension, cerebral edema, raised intracranial pressure, hypercapnia, meningitis, biochemical changes, disability & epilepsy, and even death.

What are the Common Symptoms of a Traumatic Brain Injury?