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Monday, March 31st, 2008Boy Disabled from Birth Trauma Wins $19 Million in Medical Malpractice Suit
Saturday, March 29th, 2008A New Jersey jury awarded a disabled boy $19 million on March 17th. The money will pay for the life-long medical care needed due to the boy’s injuries.
The jury found that the obstetrician misdiagnosed the boy’s mother. At 30 weeks in her pregnancy, she called the doctor and complained of abdominal pain. The doctor did not determine that she was hemorrhaging, did not give the woman the proper tests, did not recognize that the baby was in distress or heed the warnings of his nursing staff who identified the woman’s problem.
buy The Black Gestapo The boy was born during a c-section. He had to be resuscitated and then spent the first four months of his life in intensive care. He is now permanently disabled. He is legally blind, suffers from severe brain damage and he has cerebral palsy.
With pre-judgment interest, the jury’s award is expected to exceed $23 million.
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New Cooling Blankets May Help Minimize Brain Damage Caused by Birth Trauma
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008A new cooling therapy to help newborns with brain damage is being used at Children’s Hospital in New England. The hospital began using the treatment in July 2007 and has used it on seven newborns so far.
The therapy involves using an inexpensive hypothermia treatment. Doctors claim that the cooling treatment may help to minimize or completely prevent brain damage in newborns that were deprived of oxygen due to birth trauma.
The cooling treatment involves wrapping the infants in a cooling blanket within six hours of their injury. This drops their temperature to 92.3 degrees Fahrenheit. They are kept at the cooler temperature for 72 hours.
The medical director of the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Dr. Anne Hansen, claims that the treatment has been very successful. The doctor explains that the treatment works by cooling the newborn’s brain, which slows down the metabolic needs and protects the infant’s brain from damage.
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Hospital Fine for Overdosing not Enough
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
It is amazing how cheap human life has become. For example, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of Los Angles was fined only $25,000 for overdosing 3 premature infants. The hospital was not fined $25,000 per infant, but for all 3 infants. Any more a person cannot get a decent car for less than $25,000, yet a major hospital is fined this amount for a completely preventable, senseless error. Does this fine really impact the hospital? Not at all! Has the California Department of Public Health devalued human life to this level?