Sentences with phrase «in permanent brain injury»

Instead the patient was released from the hospital the following day and his undiagnosed infection was allowed to spread for the next two weeks, resulting in his permanent brain injury.

Cheerleading is one of the highest risk sporting events for direct catastrophic injuries that can result in permanent brain injury, paralysis or death, with cheerleading accounting for an astounding 66 percent of all catastrophic injuries in high school female athletes over the past 25 years.

Not exact matches

Of the 399 eligible claims, 124 were deaths and 17 were victims with physical injuries that resulted in quadriplegia, paraplegia, double amputation, permanent brain damage, or pervasive burns.

The worst injury was suffered by Ryan Berntt, a teenager who was shot in the head with a rubber bullet by police, leaving him in a month - long coma and with permanent brain damage.

In the last 17 years crashes on 287 have killed a Cowboys football player and a former golfer, left another former football player paralyzed, caused permanent brain injuries to a volleyball coach and left a former female basketball player unable to walk without two canes.

The results of at least two recent studies, however, suggest that reductions in full - contact practices can be accompished safely without putting players at additional risk, while researchers continue looking for the head trauma «holy grail»: a threshold - whether it is number of hits per week, over the course of the season, of a certain force, or to a certain part of the helmet (e.g. facemask, top of the head) above which players are at an unacceptably high risk of permanent brain injury.

Vitamin K shots are routinely administered to newborn babies because 1.8 out of every 100,000 babies who do not receive vitamin K injections suffer permanent injury or death due to uncontrolled bleeding in the brain that may be the result of having extremely low levels of vitamin K in their systems.

When a baby is obstructed in labour at home, or born with hypoxic brain injury, the delay in transferring to a tertiary hospital may result in permanent severe disability that will persist for the rest of that person's life.

Shaking your baby sometimes results in severe head injury to the baby, permanent brain damage or even death.

With no way for the cells between the brain stem and spinal cord to regenerate or reconnect, the injury often results in the permanent inability to empty the bladder.

It is known that newborn babies who suffer perinatal asphyxia may develop permanent brain injury resulting in cerebral palsy or other conditions, like epilepsy.

Every year, nearly two million people in the United States suffer traumatic brain injury (TBI), the leading cause of brain damage and permanent disabilities that include motor dysfunction, psychological disorders, and memory loss.

Damaged axons in the brain and spinal cord of mammals don't regenerate, and spinal cord injuries can therefore lead to permanent paralysis.

«Our study looked at data over a five - year period and found elevated levels of two brain injury markers in the blood; now the question is whether they may signify permanent traumatic brain injury with long - term consequences.»

So for the last 15 years I've been studying retinal ganglion cell biology trying to understand why they fail to survive after injury or in degenerative diseases like glaucoma and also when their connections to the brain are interrupted why do they fail to regenerate to regrow, why do they fail to repair themselves, it's this fundamental problem that leads to permanent vision loss in glaucoma.

When the brain is in this low energy state, it has been well established that the brain is extremely vulnerable to additional trauma, where even smaller impacts can lead to another concussion; and these second concussions can cause severe brain injuries with potentially permanent or fatal outcomes.

(They eventually approved the treatment, but the brain injury resulted in permanent cognitive impairment.)

Although not actually operating on the brain / spinal cord, it is in close proximity and there is a risk of permanent neurological injury.

However, the more severe the injury, the less effective the recovery, and complete injuries, that result in transection of the spinal cord, thus cutting off all communications between the spinal cord and the brain, result in permanent paralysis.

Claims arising from anesthesia mistakes are devastating, often resulting in permanent injury, profound brain damage or death.

While some costs can be established with a fair amount of certainty, other amounts are open to interpretation: for example, how does one place a monetary value on the permanent disfigurement of a face, or evaluate how much money a student would have earned in the workforce if not for a brain injury suffered, perhaps, in a car accident?

In other instances where the injuries are not so obvious, for example traumatic brain injuries (TBI), a doctor may need to evaluate the victim and provide his or her opinion regarding the permanent and long - term nature of the harm sustained by the accident victim.

In the end, many brain injury survivors require prolonged medical treatment, physical therapy, and rehabilitation, and those who are left with permanent disabilities will need lifelong care.

Injuries to the brain, as in this case, are almost always permanent.»

Shaken baby syndrome accounts for about 1,500 injuries annually, and the brain injury inflicted can result in permanent blindness, cerebral palsy, or cognitive disabilities.

Your head and brain are especially susceptible to injury in a car accident where not much force is needed for anyone to suffer a concussion or even a traumatic brain injury (TBI), which can lead to long lasting or permanent cognitive and physical problems.

Serious accidents can result in broken bones, spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, dismemberment, permanent and lifelong disabilities, post-traumatic stress, scarring, burns, crushing injuries, impalement, paralysis, or death.

Brain injuries can be caused by many things — from sporting activities to automobile accidents — and can result in tearing and swelling of brain tissue or even in permanent paralBrain injuries can be caused by many things — from sporting activities to automobile accidents — and can result in tearing and swelling of brain tissue or even in permanent paralbrain tissue or even in permanent paralysis.

Even mild head injuries can result in traumatic brain injury, and the damage associated with brain injury can often be permanent and debilitating.

This type of traumatic brain injury is the most devastating and, in severe cases, results in coma and permanent disability.

A person who is the victim of a head injury, physical trauma, or the adverse effects of medical treatment may experience brain damage resulting in permanent disability.

In cases of serious brain damage, they may have permanent need of a nurse or caregiver, which a Louisville traumatic brain injury lawyer will incorporate into the injury claim.

It was apparent from the medical evidence that the appellant was, for a long time, unaware of the seriousness of his brain injury and in particular the permanent nature of that disability.

Even if the victim is removed from the water quickly, permanent brain damage, paralysis, and many other life - altering injuries can and do occur in a diving accident.

Unfortunately, these cells are absent in both the brain and spinal cord, making any injuries to these sites potentially permanent.

Additional specialists such as neurologists, psychologists and others may participate in the treatment of people with more permanent conditions such as traumatic brain injury (TBI) or spinal cord injury.

Rehabilitation from a serious head or brain injury can take months or even years and involve long - term physical therapy, courses of medication, permanent prescription drug therapy, in - home medical care, and much more.

And if left untreated, even «minor» brain injuries can result in permanent impairment.

Such injuries range in severity from a mild concussion to permanent brain damage.

As a highly skilled injury lawyer, Mark Fellman works hard to assist workplace accident victims who have suffered catastrophic injury to the brain and spinal cord that result in permanent disability, who have sustained serious injuries at construction sites, and while driving or riding in company vehicles.

Anesthesia errors can easily result in permanent injury, brain damage, or death.

These falls can be fatal or they can result in devastating injuries like brain damage / head injury, spinal cord injury, paralysis, permanent disfigurement, and crushed or broken bones.This can be traumatic for both the victim and loved ones, and can create a great deal of financial and emotional anguish.

If not treated quickly, a patient may suffer permanent brain injury in Kentucky or even early death as a result of stroke misdiagnosis.

Phil Barnes leads the team, which includes Nick Tubb, who has particular expertise in cases involving surgical errors, spinal injuries, and brain injury; and Kashmir Uppal, who represented a young mother suffering from serious permanent neurological impairment due to a substandard surgical intervention.

The case, in which his client suffered a fractured pelvis and a permanent brain injury after the motor vehicle in which she was a passenger was T - boned by a reckless driver, inspired attorney Bolus to start his own practice in 1995.

$ 1.375 Million — Birth injury during delivery (April 2014) Labor and delivery claim resulting in permanent, debilitating brain damage to the infant.

In most cases, dead brain cells do not regenerate and the injuries are permanent.

Due to the high degree of the powerful forces involved, passengers and drivers of vehicles in a head - on crash can likely incur catastrophic brain and spinal cord injuries, which can result in permanent paralysis.

Subject to subsections (2) and (5) a mental or behavioural impairment, excluding traumatic brain injury, determined in accordance with the rating methodology in Chapter 14, Section 14.6 of the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 6th edition, 2008, that, when the impairment score is combined with a physical impairment described in paragraph 6 in accordance with the combining requirements set out in the Combined Values Table of the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 4th edition, 1993, results in 55 percent or more impairment of the whole person.

Intubation errors resulting in temporary or permanent breathing problems, lack of oxygen, brain injury or death