Medical Staff Settles With Family For Failure To Properly Monitor High Risk Pregnancy
Several factors may put a pregnancy at high risk. One such factor, high blood pressure, placed a pregnant woman at risk of a placental abruption. This is a condition in which the placenta separates from the uterus early. When this occurs the blood vessels in the area are torn bringing about bleeding that may restric the unborn child's oxygen supply. If effective and timely measures, such as an emergency C-section, is not taken the baby is vulnerable to sustaining brain damage that may lead to a lifelong disability or possibly die.
Think about a lawsuit in which a pregnant woman went to the hospital at 35 weeks into the pregnancy for severe hypertension which was brought on by the pregnancy. The expectant mother was in the hospital for five days before anyone in the medical staff ordered that the expectant mother be connected to a fetal heart rate monitor machine. The monitoring was ordered only after the mother