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Disorders of Consciousness: Traumatic Brain Injuries

One of the most horrifying things that could occur in an accident is a brain injury. Although a brain injury is essentially common in accidents which involves head trauma, its effects are still felt with deep abhorrence to those who are affected, for the simple reason that any form of accident affecting the brain is a death sentence to the functions being governed by that particular part of the brain.

Traumatic Brain Injury is one of the most serious types of injuries that one could obtain during a car accident. A Los Angeles brain injury attorney may have seen it all, from those who end up to full recovery, to those who end up to death and grief.

There are three possible manners of a human disability exhibiting itself as a direct result of a traumatic brain injury.

1. Coma

Coma is essentially the complete lack of consciousness arising from serious brain injury. This type of reaction only retains the basic life functions such as breathing and heartbeat to sustain the victim. Although not everybody is able to survive a coma, most of the people tend to progress and get stuck to the latter conditions enumerated here.

2. Vegetative State

Vegetative state is further classified into three: the plain vegetative state, the persistent vegetative state, and the permanent vegetative state, arranged from the least serious to the most serious. All three, however, are defined by “wakeful unconsciousness”, meaning that the patient can respond to stimuli, but is not really fully aware of anything that happens around him.

3. Minimally Conscious State

A minimally conscious state is the state wherein a person emerges from a vegetative state and has improved drastically in terms of the amount of consciousness that has been recovered by the victim. In a sense, this is the most prognostically optimistic among the three types of medically valid “unconsciousness”.

These three types of consciousness disorder arising from serious brain damage can be claimed for damages by a Los Angeles brain injury attorney.