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Burn and Brain Damage:
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Attorney David Szerlag recently recovered 2.4 million dollars in a boiler explosion case. Attorney Fred Pritzker recently recovered 2.9 million dollars in an apartment fire case. To contact a burn injury lawyer at the firm about fire burn brain damage, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free) or submit our online form for a free consultation.

Compensation for Burn Victims

In addition to severe burn injuries, burn victims may have suffered brain damage and damage to other organs in the fire, explosion, chemical spill or other accident. The compensation package should reflect the full extent of the injuries and how they will affect the burn victim's life.

Compensation for burn victims may include the following:

Medical expenses
Lost wages
Pain and suffering
Emotional distress
Disfigurement
Disability
Loss of quality of life

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Brain Damage Associated with Fires

Cerebral Anoxia Brain Injury Brain damage associated with fires is usually cerebral hypoxia (also referred to as cerebral anoxia), a condition where there is an absence of oxygen to the brain. With oxygen deprivation, the cells of the brain die within several minutes.

Cerebral hypoxia may result in severe brain damage or death. Recovery depends on how long the brain has been deprived of oxygen and how much brain damage has occurred. Even if there is “recovery,” there may be permanent psychological and neurological damage.

Extensive hypoxic brain injury may occur as follows:

Due to asphyxiation during the initial burn injury
During cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the scene of the burn injury, which may result in massive cerebral edema (swelling of the brain) and brain death several days later
Due to deprivation of oxygen during the progress of a house fire
Due to carbon monoxide poisoning
Due to prolonged delay in fluid resuscitation of a large burn, which is sometimes associated with hypoxic-ischemic brain injury and brain death

Brain Damage Associated with Electrical Burn Injury

Brain damage can result from electrical accidents as follows:

Direct electric shock (electrocution) of the brain and/or spinal cord can occur when the body comes in contact with a live electrical circuit. In this case the body completes an electrical circuit or acts as a conduit from a circuit to ground.
When the electrical contact (often prolonged) arrests the respiratory muscles or circulation the blood and oxygen supply to the brain can be interrupted resulting in ischemic brain injury.
An arc flash [or arc-blast] is a short circuit that flashes from one exposed live conductor to another, or to ground. The explosion takes less than one second and produces a brilliant flash, intense heat, and a pressure blast equivalent to several sticks of dynamite. The intense pressure wave can exert a force on the human body that is capable of causing death or severe bodily harm. With arc-blasts a brain injury from the blast isn’t due to the electrical or thermal energy associated with the arc-blast but is due to the pressure wave that causes a concussive blow to the head.

Burn and Brain Damage Attorney

To contact a burn and brain injury attorney at PritzkerOlsen, P.A. about your burn case, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free) or submit our free case consultation form.

If you retain a burn attorney at our law firm, we will immediately investigate the circumstances surrounding the burn injury. Because it is best to gather evidence soon after the injury, it is important to contact us as soon as possible.

Sources:
1. Herndon, David, Total Burn Care, 3rd edition, Elsevier Health Sciences, 2007, p.575.
2. Mozingo DW, Barillo DJ, Ruitt BA Jr: Acute resuscitation and transfer management of burned and electrically injured patients, Trama Q 11(2):94-113, 1994.
3. Carrougher, Gretchern J. (1998). Burn Care and Therapy. St. Louis: Mosby Inc.
4. (1999) Annals NY Academy of Sciences 888:19-32.
5. (2000) South Med J 93(12):1165-1168.
6. Cerbral anoxia brain damage image used on this page: http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/cases/case25/mr1/012.gif

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Burn Brain Damage

Brain damage associated with fires is usually cerebral hypoxia (also referred to as cerebral anoxia), a condition where there is an absence of oxygen to the brain.

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