Biloxi Personal Injury Law Blog

People come from all over to enjoy the nightlife and gambling opportunities that Biloxi offers. Whether you are a local resident blowing off some steam at the casino or a tourist from out of state, it's important that you take steps to protect yourself from the potential accidents and injuries an entertainment district creates.

With popular attractions come increased traffic levels, plenty of alcohol flowing and the ongoing risk of pedestrian crashes caused by motor vehicles. Those who visit the Biloxi casinos often make the smart choice of not getting behind the wheel after drinking. Those same people may want to consider learning special pedestrian safety tips to reduce the risk of an accident.

It's every driver's worst nightmare: encountering a vehicle driving the wrong way towards you. Fortunately, wrong-way crashes aren't very common. They account for only about 3% of all accidents. However, they are more likely to be fatal than any other type of crash. They result in about 350 fatalities annually, according to data from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Wrong-way drivers are often under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs. Some are simply confused. They may not know an area well and accidentally get on a road that they don't realize is one-way a lane designated for traffic traveling in the opposite direction.

One of the many fears that patients have before surgery is that the anesthesia might wear off too soon, and they'll wake up during the procedure. The phenomenon of "anesthetic awareness" is relatively rare (although exact numbers vary widely depending on which study you look at). Not surprisingly, it's more common in surgeries where smaller amounts of anesthesia are used -- such as in emergency C-sections.

It's also not what people might expect -- that you wake up to the excruciating pain of feeling your body opened up. However, it can be highly traumatic -- and that trauma can remain with a person long after the event is over. Victims of anesthetic awareness report some combination of choking, hallucinations, pain, paralysis and even near-death experiences.

Babies who are twins, triplets and quadruplets sometimes have to spend time in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) because they are underweight or have other health issues. If they're born prematurely, their parents may not have chosen names for them yet. In some religions, such as Judaism, parents don't announce a child's name for a specific period after they're born.

A study conducted at six NICUs in New York, however, indicated that infants who are part of multiple births are more likely to receive medication, treatment or tests intended for another baby -- specifically, one of their siblings. The more siblings there were, the more likely they are to be the victim of what's known as a patient order error.