Brain injuries are very complicated. The signs and symptoms differ from one incident to the next, making them a challenge to diagnose and treat uniformly. This is especially true for children, since they cannot always express their symptoms accurately — or, in some cases when they are very young, they are unable to describe their symptoms at all.
Choosing caution
You spend more time than you realize on other people's property. Every time you visit a friend, drop by the grocery store or stay in a hotel, you're putting your own safety in someone else's hands.
You expect the person who owns that property to maintain it and ensure that it's safe. You take these things for granted. Unfortunately, many property owners do not hold up their end of the deal. They leave dangerous conditions in place through ignorance or negligence. The risk of injury surrounds you.
Your teen, along with his or her friends, can legally get a driver's license at 16. That may feel way too young to you; as a parent, you still feel like it was only yesterday that you brought that little baby home from the hospital. But lawmakers have decided that 16-year-olds are mature enough to handle these 3,000-pound machines.
Unfortunately, teen drivers do pose a lot of risks, primarily because they do not have experience behind the wheel. Some would argue that they're not as ready to drive as lawmakers believe they are.
You tell your children not to text and drive. You mention it every time either one of them, both teens, decides to leave the house. They roll their eyes, but you keep saying it.
You also resolve never to do it yourself. You don't even check your messages at stoplights, as many people do. Often, you turn the phone off until you get to your destination. You've heard about the dangers of distracted driving, and you never want to feel distracted behind the wheel.
Hazards present at construction sites are very serious and can kill or cause significant injuries. It is imperative that construction workers keep an eye out for these hazards and that employers take a proactive stance to address them. Without both approaches, workers can have accidents with horrifying outcomes.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) keeps track of on-the-job injuries and accidents. Here are some points to remember based on the information OSHA has gathered for the construction industry.
In order for an employee to recoup workers' compensation damages, an accident and related injuries need to have happened while the worker was carrying out his or her job duties. In other words, the incident needs to have happened in the course and scope of the workers' employment.
If an employee, for example, gets hurt while driving home from work – and he or she was off the clock – then it's highly unlikely that a viable claim for workers' compensation damages can be made.
Accidental poisonings are one of the leading causes of death in the United States. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention note that nothing causes more accidental injury deaths overall, year in and year out. For anyone older than 25, nothing is a greater danger.
Surprised? Other common causes of injury-related deaths are car accidents, unintentional drownings and things of this nature. But many people feel shocked to see poisoning at the top of the list.
Your child got injured in a freak accident. You're afraid he or she has a brain injury, and you want to get proper treatment. You know that brain injuries are best treated right away, and you don't want to delay.
The problem, though, is that your child is too young to effectively communicate regarding symptoms. It's making it very hard to figure out exactly how he or she is doing or how you should proceed.
Most of the time when you get into a motor vehicle, either as a passenger or a driver, you arrive at your destination safely. Every time you're in a car, truck, van or SUV, however, you risk the possibility of getting into a serious collision with another vehicle.
Even if you drive as carefully as possible, the mistakes of another person could end up translating into injuries for you and your passengers or even a fatality. Distracted drivers can pose as much risk to others on the road as intoxicated drivers. Even a moment of negligence, caused by a ringing phone or a yelling passenger, could result in a crash.
One of your co-workers was seriously hurt on the job. The accident caused production to slam to a halt, it was chaotic until emergency services arrived, and you haven't seen your co-worker since. He's in the hospital, recovering from serious injuries, and workplace rumors say he may never be able to return to his job.
It was a wake-up call. You never took workplace dangers all that seriously before, but now you're wondering how accidents happen so that you can avoid the same fate. Below are five key reasons.
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