Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Brain injuries

Brain injuries can occur in many different ways. Obviously, trauma can cause a brain injury. Some of these are the result of carelessness causing direct traumatic contact to the brain by an outside object or force. Others are caused by the brain literally striking the inside of the skull in what is caused a closed head injury.

Closed head injuries can result in fluid collection called hydrocephalus, bleeding of the tissues which is a hemorrhage, and sometimes a herniation of the brain from the fluid or blood which is a destructive movement of the brain from the force of the fluid or blood collection.

Yet, the brain is sometimes injured very seriously without a fluid or blood collection.  A serious concussion or bruise of the brain can injure the connecting fibers of the brain and damage “the electrical system”. This can cause what is known as cognitive changes such as loss or deterioration of memory, difficulties in reasoning and thinking, speech and learning abilities.

There are occasions where a problem with breathing caused by an arrest, by shock, stroke or from a deficiency in the lung whereby blood is not oxygenated sufficiently can cause temporary anoxia, (the lack of oxygen), or persistent hypoxia, (a lowered amount of oxygen to the brain) which damages the tissue resulting in severe motor and mental function deficits. Fore more information on brain injures caused by delayed diagnosis, click here.

At the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania brain injury law firm, we have had the experience in pursuing many cases for injured citizens which have occurred in all of the above ways.

If you, a friend, or a family member have sustained a brain injury and believe that it could be from someone’s carelessness, then contact the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania brain injury lawyers of John A. Caputo and Associates today by calling (866)826-4949.