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C-section Results in Fatal Birth Injury

holland — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:00:49 +0000

Doctors all over the world regularly perform cesarean sections every day, usually without any problems due to advances in modern medicine. However, an infant born at Shaktinagar District Hospital in India died last month due to a slip of the doctor’s surgical knife during a C-section. The surgeon cut a one-inch deep gash on the newborn’s head. According to The Times of India, the mother’s family filed a complaint with police, but the doctor states that the electricity went off in the operating room at the time that he made his surgical mistake.

The surgeon admits that he did wound the baby with his surgical knife, and he reported following protocol by stitching the wound, administering saline and giving the newborn oxygen. However, the infant died that night. The superintendent of the hospital provides a differing account of the power outage, since he states that the power was never out at the hospital.

The family must pursue restitution from the hospital, regardless of whether the electricity went out or if the surgeon simply made a mistake. A fatal birth injury like this one cannot go unquestioned.

Cappolino Dodd Krebs LLP—Birth trauma attorney

Study Finds C-Sections Deliveries Are On The Rise

admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:00:09 +0000

According to MSNBC, government scientists report that birth by C-Section will continue to increase, citing a study into the causes of a trend that may trouble maternal health experts. Researchers with the National Institutes of Health found that nearly one third of first-time moms deliver by C-section. A lead author of a study, Dr. Jun Zhang, researched 230,000 deliveries in 19 nationwide hospitals. Dr. Zhang reported the findings were surprising, especially that doctors found a woman who had already had a cesarean birth will always have a repeat c-section.

The study referenced hospital policy to always repeat c-sections, also suggesting a link between chemically induced labor and higher chances of c-section. Women who had their labor induced were twice as likely to have a cesarean. It is unclear if medication or forcing Mother Nature to deliver a child had an effect on higher surgical deliveries.

Medical experts argue that cesarean deliveries are an over treatment in procedures and tests that provide little or no benefit while subjecting patients to additional health risks. A surgery carries its own risk of infection and medical errors, with experts arguing vaginal births are safer even for women who have had a first c-section.

Since the mid-1990s, the c-section rate in the U.S. increased by more than 50 percent. Some of it may be to prevent medical malpractice and other lawsuits, experts claim. In Scandinavian countries, surgical deliveries hover at 20 percent range with no evidence of ill-effects to mothers or babies.

Causes of Cerebral Palsy

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:52:26 +0000

Here are a few mistakes doctors make that could ultimately cause Cerebral Palsy:

· Leaving a child in the birth canal too long resulting in lack of oxygen to the brain

· Failure to recognize and treat seizures post-delivery

Failure to correct an umbilical cord wrapped around a child’s neck

· Excessive use of vacuum extraction

· Improper use of forceps

· During fetal distress, opting not to perform a C-Section

· Ignoring alterations in the fetal heart rate

Not recognizing or treating changes in the mother’s condition, such as high blood pressure or toxemia

· Not treating jaundice in time

· Failure to timely diagnose and treat meningitis

If any of these things occurred while you were giving birth and your child now suffers from Cerebral Palsy, think of what needs to be done. Doctors should be held responsible for their actions—let us help – call the attorneys at Cappolino Dodd Krebs LLP at 1-800-460-0606.

Birth Trauma

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:37:43 +0000

1 in 200 babies is born with some form of birth injury, and many of these cases may have been caused by medical negligence.

Extreme care must be taken by health professionals when delivering a newborn child. Birth injuries can be the result of mishandling during or before the birthing process. Because of the soft skull and brain tissue, an infants head can be very easily injured. Some of the common birth injuries include Cerebral Palsy and Erbs Palsy also called Brachial Plexus Injury or Shoulder Dystocia.

The C-Section or Cesearean birth process is used in situations where the birth process is not happening naturally or where the baby is not being born head first. If the doctor opts not to use a C-Section, in spite of potential complications and the child is injured there may be a legal claim.

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