Banning Hypoxic Brain Injury Lawyer
Even brief oxygen deprivation could cause long-lasting damage to your body, especially to your brain. If the brain goes without a fresh supply of oxygenated blood, or if deoxygenated blood cannot flow out of the brain and back toward the heart, even for a few minutes, the resulting cell death and tissue damage could cause permanent, debilitating, and even deadly loss of brain function.
While “hypoxia”, the medical term for bodily tissues being partially deprived of oxygen, is not guaranteed to cause life-altering harm every time it occurs, it is nevertheless an extremely serious medical problem that requires immediate emergency care. If you suffered this sort of harm through someone else’s negligence, you may have trouble filing suit over it without a skilled attorney’s help.
Contacting a Banning hypoxic brain injury lawyer from Walter Clark Legal Group should therefore be among your top priorities.
Causes and Effects of Hypoxia
Any physical injury, illness, or chronic condition that affects the body’s ability to transfer oxygen from the lungs into the bloodstream or that restricts the normal flow of blood around the body could cause hypoxia in the brain and various other tissues. Strokes, asthma, and anemia are all particularly dangerous in this regard, but hypoxic brain injuries can also be caused by traumatic injuries that result in uncontrolled internal or external bleeding or even by common sicknesses such as influenza and COVID-19.
Minor cases of hypoxia may produce symptoms such as anxiety, restlessness, rapid increase in heart rate or breathing, and shortness of breath. More severe cases could manifest as even more pronounced agitation, an extremely slow heart rate, or a bluish tint in the skin. Anyone who displays multiple symptoms of hypoxia should seek emergency medical attention.
Later on, when pursuing compensation for cerebral damage caused by hypoxia, a Banning attorney could factor these medical costs into the civil lawsuit or settlement demand.
Getting Paid Fairly for Short-Term and Long-Term Losses
Holding someone else civilly liable for a hypoxic brain injury requires proving that a specific irresponsible act by that other person directly led to otherwise preventable harm, and that said harm likely would not have happened at all were it not for that irresponsible act. For example, a speeding driver could hold civil liability for this sort of harm if the wreck they caused through their traffic violation resulted in someone else suffering a brain bleed.
Alternatively, a doctor who failed to properly diagnose and treat a stroke could be liable for ensuing brain damage based on their failure to meet the standard of care applicable to them.
In such situations, anyone found legally at fault for this sort of trauma could be required to pay for both economic and non-economic forms of harm caused by that trauma. Alongside emergency medical bills, they may be responsible for covering:
- Expected costs of future rehabilitative and maintenance care, including assistive equipment, home modifications, and in-home assistance
- Lost working and earning capacity
- Physical discomfort and pain
- Psychological trauma and suffering
- Decline in overall quality of life
During a confidential consultation in Banning, a qualified lawyer could discuss in more detail what “damages” should be accounted for in a particular hypoxic brain injury case.
Speak With a Banning Attorney About Hypoxic Neurological Injuries Today
Any injury or illness that leads to the brain being deprived of oxygen is a potentially life-threatening matter. If you know that someone else caused you to get hurt in this way or that your doctors mishandled your illness, you may have grounds to seek civil restitution. A capable legal professional could help you take full advantage of this opportunity.
If you work with Walter Clark Legal Group, our legal team will do everything possible to ensure you get the compensation you need. Call today to learn what a Banning hypoxic brain injury lawyer could do to help you.
