Without a quick and accurate diagnosis, a brain injury can rapidly get worse. Accordingly, doctors must run the necessary tests if a brain injury is suspected and learn how the brain injury may have happened to get a prompt diagnosis. Brain Injury Symptoms Some brain injury symptoms…
You know how much your child has at stake. A successful cerebral palsy lawsuit could compensate your child for past and future medical costs, physical pain, emotional suffering, out-of-pocket costs, lost income, adaptive equipment, and other needs. However, if your child’s cerebral palsy lawsuit is…
You may be worried that your child has cerebral palsy after a difficult labor and delivery, but it may be a few years before a doctor makes a cerebral palsy diagnosis. Often, a diagnosis comes after a child has missed developmental milestones. If you or…
Sepsis may cause complicated medical problems you’ve never heard of. As if your loved one’s sepsis infection was not scary enough, she has now been diagnosed with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) after developing sepsis in her Kentucky nursing home. What Is Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation? Serious…
Meningitis is an infection of the membrane around the brain and spinal cord, and it is often a medical emergency. Without quick antibiotic treatment, bacterial meningitis may cause permanent brain damage or death. Unfortunately, sometimes emergency room doctors take too long to diagnose meningitis and patients…
Each year, millions of Americans seek emergency room care for brain injuries, but are they getting the medical care they need? For many people who suffer brain injuries in motor vehicle collisions, falls, and other types of accidents, the emergency room is the first place…