When an individual experiences a severe traumatic brain injury, or TBI, often the brain swells and is at risk of suffering secondary damage. One way emergency room doctors relieve the resulting pressure is by performing a decompressive craniectomy (DC), a surgical procedure in which a…
Two cars collided in Louisville, Kentucky earlier this month, and one person has died as a result of the crash. The reported accident occurred around 9 a.m. on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 in the 8900 block of 3rd Street Road. According to Louisville Metro Police,…
No. Sometimes, Kentucky nursing home residents suffer injuries that are not the result of nursing home abuse or neglect. Instead, the injuries may occur as a result of medication side effects, the normal progression of disease, or in other ways that the nursing home couldn’t…
Your daughter was just hit in the head with a baseball, and the emergency medical technician suspects a traumatic brain injury. What medical professionals do in the next few hours is crucial to saving your daughter’s life; what they do in the upcoming months may…
Move-in day at a Kentucky nursing home can be chaotic. You are trying to settle your parent in and make sure that his belongings are set up and that your parent is comfortable. However, while you tend to this important task of settling your parent…
Two motor vehicle accidents near Elizabethtown resulted in six fatalities and five injuries earlier this month. Both crashes happened around 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 2, 2013 on Interstate 65 near Elizabethtown. The six people who died were reportedly a family from Wisconsin. They were…