Brain Injury Lawyer California Reviews a Traumatic Brain Injury That Results in a Coma Leading to Death from a Fall at Any Height

As an adult, most people have no problems walking, and it is a rare occurrence for you to fall down to the ground during the pursuit of your normal and every day activities of life. But many people do fall down, as a result of an accident. You can fall from many situations, including:

• Tripping and falling on uneven surfaces
• Being pushed by someone else in an assault or altercation
• Slipping on a slippery surface
• Falling from a height
• Falling backwards from an obstacle in the ground and tripping backwards
• Falling out of a hospital bed

Falling down forwards or backwards can result in a traumatic brain injury or TBI. If you fall at the ground level, you can sustain serious injuries, and if your fall is from a higher level, you can experience even more serious injuries from the accident. Accidents happen when you least expect them, and no one expects to die from a fall, but it happens quite regularly when there is also a traumatic brain injury associated with the fall accident. If your loved one fell and sustained a traumatic brain injury, you will want to call our office at the Brain Injury Lawyer California, to review your claim against the at-fault parties responsible for the wrongful death of your loved one from a fall accident. You can call us today at the California Wrongful Death Lawyer toll free at 844.99.5342, right now. We are here to take your call, and answer all of your questions related to a fall accident that resulted in a death of your loved one who also had a traumatic brain injury.

Death from a Fall at Any Height after a Traumatic Brain Injury and Related Injuries

You can die from a fall at any height, if you hit your head and sustain a traumatic brain injury. You can have a TBI and die from it, if you have other comorbidities, are elderly, or have a serious bleeding in your brain as a result of the fall. For example, you can expect to have multiple injuries that can be life-threatening to life ending, if you fall from a height, and also have a serious injury to the:

• Neck fractures
• Spinal fractures
• Pelvis break
• Chest collapse
• Lung collapse or puncture
• Broken ribs
• Abdominal injuries
• Compression fractures
• Compound fractures
• Head traumas
• Fractures of the skull
• Central nervous system impairment
• Cardiovascular system impairment

Many people who fall also sustain other related injuries as a result of the fall, including: bone fractures, chest injuries, limb fractures, face or jaw fractures and injuries to your abdomen.

Comas from Traumatic Brain Injuries Are Often Fatal After a Fall from Any Height and a TBI

If you fall from the ground level or from a greater height, you can go into a coma, from which you may not recover or ever awaken again. If you do go into a coma, you will be evaluated at the bedside by a doctor, who will review your condition using the Glasgow coma scale or GCS. This coma scale determines the level of consciousness that you exhibit during your recovery in a hospital. The Glasgow coma scale ranges from a high score of 15 (fully awake, responsive and no memory loss) to a low of 3 (possible vegetative state). If you have a GCS of 8 or lower, it means you are in a coma, and are unable to respond to the doctor’s commands (blink your eyes, move your limbs on command, etc.). Once you are in a coma though, your body will try to heal itself, and some people can recover from a coma after a few hours or even a few days. People also die after having been in a coma, because the body cannot recover from the TBI and fall that was suffered. There is always hope that a person can recover from a coma, but if there are too many systems that suffer internal damage, your body may not be able to recover and that is when most people die from their falls.

Central Nervous System Damage Can Be Fatal, After a Fall with a TBI and Resulting Coma

Most people never know that if you fall, sustain a TBI and damage your central nervous system, it can be a high risk factor for death after a fall related accident. The central nervous system works to keep all your internal organs and blood flow consistent in your body, and a fall that results in a TBI can seriously disrupt this system to the result of death. Studies show that there is a significant relationship between your GCS and your time of survival, after a fall that includes a TBI. For example, if you have a Glasgow coma score under 8, you have a nearly 85% chance that you will die within the first 24 hours of admission to the hospital, if you have also had central nervous system damage to your body. In the event that you have a serious pre-existing condition, falling down and sustaining a TBI may exacerbate your injuries, which can tip the scales to mortality as a result of your falling accident. If this has happened to your loved one from an accidental fall on someone else’s property, you can call us now to review your case, at the California Wrongful Death Lawyer toll free at 844.99.5342.

References

Basak, D., Anthony, A. A., Banerjee, N., Rath, S., Chatterjee, S., Soni, K. D., Sharma, N., Ogawa, T., O’Reilly, G., Attergrim, J., Wärnberg, M. G., & Roy, N. (2022). Mortality from fall: A descriptive analysis of a multicenter Indian trauma registry. Injury, 53(12), 3956–3961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.injury.2022.09.048