Doctor Settles $457,000 Lawsuit For Loss Of Baby Because Doctor Did Not Administer Antibiotics
Group b streptococcus presents substantial challenges when it impacts an infant.A newborn who acquires a Group B Strep infection is at significant danger of severe complications and even death. The infection could rapidly advance into sepsis, pneumonia or meningitis and can result in a major disability. Because of the risks a Group B Strep infection poses to infants physicians normally agree that it is essential to minimize the threat that the infection will be transmitted to the baby from a mother who carries, or has any of the risk factors, for the bacteria.
There are thus some situations that doctors take into account in finding out whether there is an increased risk that the expectant mother will transmit the bacteria to her child. The mother