Brain Injury Lawyers

Our Brain Injury Lawyers can handle a variety of cases involving brain injuries, including traumatic brain injuries, injuries caused from a partial or complete lack of oxygen, or injuries resulting from an insufficient amount of cerebral blood flow carrying blood to the brain. If you suspect you or a loved one is suffering from a brain injury as a result of medical negligence, and would like more details on signs and symptoms, please see below. Please contact our brain injury lawyers if you believe that your injury was preventable.

Our Brain Injury Attorneys and the Cases They Handle

The brain injury lawyers at Duffy & Duffy understand that medical mistakes and negligence can occur in a variety of circumstances and lead to grave brain injuries. Common cases include:

Traumatic brain injury (TBI):

Traumantic brain injury occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. TBI can result when the head suddenly and violently hits an object, or when an object pierces the skull and enters brain tissue. Symptoms of a TBI can be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the extent of the damage to the brain. A person with a mild TBI may remain conscious or may experience a loss of consciousness for a few seconds or minutes. Other symptoms of mild TBI include headache, confusion, lightheadedness, dizziness, blurred vision or tired eyes, ringing in the ears, bad taste in the mouth, fatigue or lethargy, a change in sleep patterns, behavioral or mood changes, and trouble with memory, concentration, attention, or thinking. A person with a moderate or severe TBI may show these same symptoms, but may also have a headache that gets worse or does not go away, repeated vomiting or nausea, convulsions or seizures, an inability to awaken from sleep, dilation of one or both pupils of the eyes, slurred speech, weakness or numbness in the extremities, loss of coordination, and increased confusion, restlessness, or agitation.

Hypoxic-Anoxic Brain Injury (Lack of Oxygen)

Hypoxic-anoxic injuries result when there is a substantial (partial, or hypoxic) or a complete (total, or anoxic) lack of oxygen supplied to the brain. This diminished oxygen supply to the brain may produce profound cognitive, physical and emotional impairments. As a result, hypoxic-anoxic injury (HAI) can have a catastrophic impact. HAI can be caused by a variety of disease processes and injuries, but hypoxic-ischemic injury (HII) is the most common. Although there are several possible reasons for anoxic injury, such as not enough blood or hemoglobin, acute hemorrhage, chronic anemia, carbon monoxide poisoning are common causes of this type of injury.

Stagnant (ischemic) anoxia; also called hypoxic-ischemic injury, or HII

This results when there is not enough cerebral blood flow to carry blood to the brain. The injury can be localized, such as in ischemic strokes or generalized, such as a circulatory collapse secondary to cardiac arrhythmias or cardiac arrest. Areas of the brain that are very sensitive to lack of oxygen include the hippocampus (a region critical for memory), border zone areas of the cerebral cortex, cerebellum, basal ganglia and spinal cord. Frequent causes of cardiac arrest, perhaps the most common cause of ischemic anoxia are anesthesia accidents, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (hardening of the arteries), asphyxia (drowning and suicide attempts), chest trauma, electrocution, severe bronchial asthma, and barbiturate poisoning.

Call us today at 516-394-4200 to see how our experienced Long Island brain injury lawyers can help you.