Family Compensated $1,500,000 For Child's Brain Injury
A variety of factors may place a pregnancy at high risk. One such factor, high blood pressure, placed an expectant mother at high risk for a placental abruption. This is a situation wherein the placenta separates from the uterus early. When this happens the blood vessels in the vicinity are torn bringing about bleeding that can considerable decrease the amount of oxygen that reached the unborn child. If proper and timely measures, such as an emergency C-section, is not taken the baby is in danger of sustaining brain damage that may produce a permanent impairment or possibly die.
Consider a lawsuit in which a pregnant woman went to the hospital in the thirty fifth week of her pregnancy for extreme hypertension which was induced by the pregnancy. The expectant mother remained in the hospital for five days before anyone in the medical staff ordered that the fetal heart rate be monitored. This did not happen until her condition deteriorated. Even though the output of the monitor exposed that the baby was in distress the staff gave the mother drugs to induce her labor.
Eight hours later the monitor showed that the baby was in severe distress. At this point a placental abruption was at last diagnosed. Even after that it sill took an additional hour before the physician did a C-section. As a result of the delay the child suffered a form of brain damage known as acute hypoxic-ischemia which is triggered by a lack of oxygen.
The baby was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and an died from complications at two and a half. The law firm that handled this cases on behalf of the child