What can MRI imaging tell you about your baby’s HIE brain injury? The answer to this question can be crucial in understanding the timing of your baby’s HIE injury. For many parents, trying to understand the timing of their baby’s brain injury is critical in their understanding of what happened during this part of their lives.
The truth of the matter is MRI imaging can play a vital role in offering proof as to the issue of causation in a medical malpractice case. At the core, birth injury, or birth trauma cases are negligence cases which follow the elements of duty, breach of duty, causation, and damages. With that said, the traditional analysis of a negligence theory will prevail.
What Can MRI Imaging Tell You About Your Baby’s HIE Brain Injury?
As I mention above, the timing of a birth injury is important to the element of causation in a negligence case. In many of these cases the defense will point to the fact that in their opinions, the injury happened earlier in time and was not on the watch of the doctors, nurses, and hospital. Knowing this, birth injury attorneys like myself will review the cases with this in mind.
For this post I am going to talk about T1 and T2 MRI imaging from a medical legal standpoint. At the end of the day, MRI is the gold standard with reviewing HIE brain injury cases. Although ultrasound technology can be helpful, MRI imaging can reveal more information.
When this imaging is used less than 24 hours after birth, birth injury attorneys are looking to see if the imaging is revealing a normal pattern. This is the same when reviewing ultrasound imaging. At 1 day of life to day 3, there might be mild changes in the MRI. Finally, at days 4-7, abnormal findings might start to show up. This information is important because if the injury is an old injury, then the initial scans might reveal an injury already present in the brain. For readings like this when an older injury is already present, a strong argument will be made that the injury happened earlier in the pregnancy and is not the fault, or was caused, by the doctors, nurses, or hospital.
If you have questions regarding what caused your baby’s HIE injury at birth give me a call at my contact information below. It will cost you nothing initially to speak with me about your baby’s injury. Helping families find answers to the cause of their baby’s traumatic brain injury is something that we do all the time and we would be honored to hear your baby’s story.
Marcus B. Boston, Esq.
9701 Apollo Dr. Suite 100
Largo, Maryland 20774
1-833-4 BABY HELP