Birth injuries refer to any damage your baby may suffer before, during, or shortly after labor and delivery. They often result from preventable medical errors, like the use of excessive physical force, oxygen deprivation, misuse of instruments, or prolonged labor. Unlike birth defects, which develop naturally while the baby is within the womb, birth injuries …
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the drug Cytotec (Misoprostol) for treating stomach ulcers, but not for inducing labor. Still, many medical professionals have used the drug to help initiate labor, and as a result, some mothers and their babies have been harmed. If you believe you or your baby were harmed due …
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a baby is born with a birth defect every four-and-a-half minutes in the United States. If your baby suffered a birth defect, your doctor may have been negligent in checking for issues during your pregnancy or delivery. One of our firm’s birth injury lawyers can …
When a baby is in distress, it means the baby is not getting enough oxygen before or during delivery. Thus, when you are pregnant or in labor, you expect your healthcare provider to monitor both you and your baby to ensure all is going smoothly. However, when your baby is in distress, they could be …
When a healthcare practitioner’s action leads to a newborn’s harm, it may be medical negligence. If that is the case, the injured child’s parents are entitled to recover monetary compensation from the at-fault medical care provider in a birth injury lawsuit. Birth Injury Lawsuits are Medical Malpractice Cases Preparing for a winning birth injury lawsuit …
Some birth injuries are simply unavoidable, but when the doctor or other medical professional acts in a way that deviates from the established standard of care, it can fit the legal criteria for medical malpractice or negligence. This means the doctor failed to identify a problem, failed to take the correct course of action, or …
It might surprise you to learn that medical errors are the third-leading cause of death in United States, according to a study by Johns Hopkins. Healthcare professionals are generally professional, dedicated, and caring people, but humans make mistakes. Making their job harder is the for-profit system of healthcare in the United States, in which the …
There are several risk factors among expecting mothers that increase the chance of a difficult delivery and birth injuries. It’s important for women and their healthcare professionals to be aware of these factors to avoid preventable birth injuries. Here are some of the most common risk factors: Maternal Obesity According to the medical journal Obstetrics …
Mary and Brian Kvitko of Oconee County Georgia, have given a voice (literally) to their young son Oscar, a first-grader who suffers from cerebral palsy. Oscar is doing well cognitively, but his condition made him unable to express himself verbally, until recently. The Kvitkos got Oscar a life-changing gift: a speech tablet. It is a …
(and it’s not COVID) Hospitals and nursing homes are experiencing a deadly staffing crisis, but COVID is not solely to blame. Certainly, the latest omicron mutation of COVID has exacerbated worker shortages across many industries, but experts believe that the pandemic is merely exposing a health care staffing problem that already existed. As with many …
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