Medical Malpractice Case Study in Fairfax, VA

Trial Presentation Case Study: Medical Malpractice Case in Fairfax, VA Court.    This medical malpractice trial in Fairfax, VA utilized graphics, illustrations, electronic presentation, and

May 20, 2020 - 1 min read

Understanding Vaccines & The Body

How Does a Vaccine Work Within the Body? Vaccines offer a possible solution to COVID19. To understand how vaccines work, it is necessary to first look at how the body naturally fights illness. Humans

May 19, 2020 - 1 min read

Proton Pump Inhibitors - Multidistrict Litigation

Since the late 1980’s, Physicians have prescribed proton pump inhibitors (“PPIs”) to treat the symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (“GERD”) and other conditions involving excess stomach acid. By 2019, PPI’s had been prescribed to more than 15 million Americans; and an unknown quantity of over-the-counter (“OTC”) PPIs were in use.During the period in which PPIs have been sold in the United States, hundreds of reports of various injuries have been submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) in association with ingestion of PPIs such as Nexium, Prilosec, Prevacid, Protonix, and others. In recent years, pharmaceutical companies such as AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Merck & Co., Inc., The Proctor & Gamble Company, and Takeda have been named as Defendants in nearly 14,000 product liability complaints. Complaints uniformly allege that “users and prescribing physicians were not adequately warned” that the widely used heartb

May 14, 2020 - 1 min read

Auto Accident Animations - Lighting Conditions

Auto Accident Legal Animations - Recreation of Lighting Conditions   When creating a 3D legal animation on your next accident case, make sure that you utilize accurate lighting and weather condit

May 11, 2020 - 1 min read

Animating Flow

For most attorneys who are considering the use of animation in their courtroom presentations, the only real question is whether to use animation or to use traditional illustration. Once the decision is made to use animation, there’s not much thought given to style or technique.But there are many variations in animation technique. Some are more clear and schematic, while others are more realistic and dramatic. The style of the animation created can change based on both the objective and the personal taste of the presenter.Click here to view this video on our YouTube page.For our purposes here, let’s limit our discussion to the differences in animating the flow of liquids or gases.Of course, in traditional illustration, movement or flow is typically represented with arrows. Arrows are a universal symbol for both movement and direction.For this reason, arrows are also an option for animation. Yet, even though these arrows are a simple solution for animation, an even more schemati

Apr 20, 2020 - 1 min read

Reperfusion Injury

In this case it was necessary to show two separate mechanisms of injury. Regretfully, this developing child was damaged in two ways: 1st by a blockage of blood flow to the brain, and 2nd by a reperfusion injury when flow was restored.Click here to view this video on our YouTube pageIn order to explain these injuries we had to first educate the audience on normal oxygenation of a fetus by showing how oxygen is carried from the placenta to the fetus via the umbilical cord and then how this oxygen travels through the babies body to be released into the brain.An enlargement of one of these tiny blood vessels in the brain clearly showed how the blood releases oxygen into the surrounding brain tissue.Next, we animated the first mechanism of injury. When the amount of oxygen available to the baby slows or stops, less oxygen is released into the brain. This results in widespread ischemia, or tissue death, in the brain of this baby.But that was only the first injury. Eventually flow of

Apr 14, 2020 - 1 min read

Combining 2D and 3D Views

In recent years, 3D modeling of anatomy has become more and more popular. This is certainly understandable when you view the beauty of what can be achieved in 3D.Modern 3D technology allows for bright vibrant color, crisp clear images and various percentages of transparency. When handled well, it can look very exciting and professional.Regretfully, 3D visualization may not allow for the most precise representation of location and proximity. Since the proximity of structures can look closer or further away in 3D depending on the perspective shown, it is still often preferable to include 2D views when perfect precision is required.Click here to view this video on our YouTube pageIn this animation, it was essential to show the exact location that the medication was injected to make it clear that the subclavian artery was not violated. While the 3D portion of the animation provides a good overall understanding of how the injection was done, the inset 2D portion allows for the preci

Apr 14, 2020 - 1 min read

Representing The Unknown

At Trial Exhibits, we are sometimes called upon to illustrate general theories that do not have defined specifics. In such cases, an expert witness may have an overall opinion on what occurred without knowing exactly how it happened. This illustration of umbilical cord compression is a great example of this problem.In this case involving a defect in fetal development, the OB-GYN expert was confident that the defect in this fetus occurred long before the delivery due to a compression of the umbilical cord resulting in a reduction of blood flow to the fetus. Regretfully, it was impossible to say how this umbilical cord compression occurred. Was the cord compressed between the shoulder and the anterior uterine wall? Was it compressed between the head and the cervix? The exact mechanism was unknown. The lack of these specifics does not change the validity of the theory, but it certainly makes it difficult to illustrate! That was the problem presented to Trial Exhibits.Our solution is

Mar 30, 2020 - 1 min read

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