How Do Brain Injuries Happen?
Brain injury is one of the most serious injuries that a person can suffer during their lifetime. Over 1.4 million people suffer a traumatic brain injury each year in the United States, with 50,000 of those dying from their injury, 235,000 of those people are hospitalized and 1.1 million people are treated and released from hospitals. The leading causes of brain injury include the following:
- Falls (28 percent)
- Motor vehicle-traffic crashes (20 percent)
- Struck by/against (19 percent)
- Assaults (11 percent)
Men are 1.5 times more likely than women to suffer a brain injury, the two highest groups at risk for suffering a brain injury are 0 to 4 and 15 to 19 year olds, and African Americans have the highest death rate from brain injury.
A common form of brain injury is birth injury. Birth injuries account for fewer than two percent of neonatal fatalities in the United States. Birth injuries can be caused by one or more of the following:
- Prima gravida
- Prolonged or rapid labor
- Oligohydramnios
- Abnormal presentation (breech)
- Versions and extractions
- Fetal macrosomia
- Large fetal head
- Fetal anomalies
Brain injuries cost roughly $60 billion annually in the United States for medical procedures to treat the injuries and for lost productivity because of the injuries suffered.
Do you think you have been the victim of medical malpractice or negligent birth injury? Contact our experienced team of birth injury and medical malpractice lawyers today.
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Dallas, Texas 75201
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