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Hypoxia and anoxia are brain injuries that are caused when the brain is deprived of oxygen. Hypoxic brain injury occurs when the brain is partially deprived of oxygen, while anoxic brain injury occurs when the brain in totally deprived of oxygen.
Hypoxia and anoxia can be caused by anything that would deprive the brain of oxygen. Some common causes of oxygen deprivation include:
The prognosis for recovery depends on how long the brain was deprived of oxygen and how complete the oxygen deprivation was. Brain cells are extremely sensitive to oxygen and will begin to die within five minutes of deprivation. For minor hypoxia, in which only a small amount of oxygen is blocked from getting to the brain for only a short time, the injured person may experience dizziness or a short period of unconsciousness. In these cases, the hypoxic brain injury may have a limited long-term effect.
Unfortunately, in more severe cases of hypoxia and for cases of anoxia that do not result in death, the consequences can be extremely severe. Amnesia, personality change, long-term memory loss, and even paralysis or loss of muscle control may develop. In the worst cases, brain death occurs in which the person's vital organs continue to function but with no cognitive activity occurring in the brain.
When hypoxia or anoxia occur as a result of someone else's negligence, the injured person will likely be able to sue the negligent person. Examples include hypoxia that occurs during childbirth as a result of the hospital staff's negligence or hypoxia that occurs during a car accident as a result of a closed head injury. In both of these cases, the injured person would likely be able to sue the person whose negligence caused their brain injury.
We represent clients diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury, brain damage, closed head injury, TBI, MTBI, mild traumatic brain injury, moderate traumatic brain injury, severe traumatic brain injury, post-concussion syndrome, concussion, diffuse anoxal injury, hypoxic-ischemic injury, anoxic brain injury, organic brain syndrome, focal brain injury, hemorrhage, hematoma, subdural hematoma, epidural hematoma, subarachnoid hemorrhage, hydrocephalus, encephalopathy, and all other types of brain injury.
We represent pediatric brain injury and child brain injury patients diagnosed with a brain injury or brain damage from daycare accidents, shaken baby syndrome, child abuse, birth injury, birth trauma, cerebral palsy, infections, meningitis, and medical malpractice.
