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Brain Injury Treatment Options
There are various treatment options that physicians might use for head and Sacramento spinal cord injury patients in the hours, weeks, and months following a disaster or illness.
Equipment That Can Save Your Life in the ICU
Brain injury patients often lose control of key functions, such as breathing, coordination, and the ability to communicate. Doctors in the ICU can deploy powerful technologies to stabilize patients, keep them alive, and limit the development of indirect damage.
A ventilator can help victims keep breathing, even if damage to the autonomic nervous system (ANS) has occurred. If you’ve been on a ventilator for a while, a physician may use a tracheotomy tube to suction out the lungs.
For delivery of nutrients, fluids, medications, doctors will use intravenous lines (IVs), and for waste disposal, a catheter to collect urine. If the patient cannot swallow due to the brain injury, a doctor may insert a nasogastric tube (NG tube). To measure the pressure inside the brain, physicians may install an intracranial pressure monitor (ICP).
A ventricular drain – also known as ventriculostomy – drains excess cerebro-spinal fluid and also monitors pressure changes inside the brain.
Longer Term Treatment Modalities
Unfortunately, brain tissue does not rebound the same way that other kinds of tissues (e.g. muscle and skin tissue) tend to. So if a region in your brain gets damaged or destroyed, functions associated with that tissue may be lost forever. However, the brain has a remarkable ability – one that scientists do not fully understand – to heal, even under the most unlikely circumstances.
For instance, you get into a Sacramento car accident that damages the region of your brain that controls fine motor coordination. Over a long period of time, months, maybe years, other parts of your brain may actually take over for the destroyed area and return some or possibly even most of your fine motor skills.
Rehabilitation and treatment involve monitoring, physical rehab, and retraining. Under certain circumstances, a patient may practice simple skills, such as relearning words or relearning how to coordinate body parts. This essentially burns in new neural pathways.
In other cases, treatment might include using prosthetics to help the patient. For instance, say a brain injury related stroke leaves a typist unable to coordinate her fingers. She might be outfitted with a special prosthetic to help her type without her using her hands.
Even if a patient has experienced a severe insult to the brain, recovery of critical functions can be possible. Spontaneous recovery can take place over months or even years after significant injuries.
Getting Legal Help
If you or someone you love is suffering from a brain injury, call our team now at (800) 610-1892, or find out more information on Sacramento brain injury treatments. You may want to hold the responsible parties liable for your bills, pain and suffering, time off of work, and other costs, and the attorneys at Estey Bomberger are available to provide careful guidance about the best course of legal action for your situation.