Birth Injury Negligence Research Paper

Injury Due to Labor and Delivery Negligence
Some things in this world are simple and can be done easily by a single person. But, many tasks require a team work and unity. One amongst them is the task of bringing a child into this world. The birth of a baby should be the happiest moment in a parent’s life, but events that occur during labor or in the delivery room can quickly turn happiness to sorrow. It becomes the keen responsibility of doctors, nurses, and other team members involved in bringing a child into the world to do all they can to keep mom and baby safe and healthy. Around most of the birth injury cases happen from a failure to uphold the duty. But, unfortunately if such thing happens with you and you suspect your child’s birth injury was a preventable one, and you would like to hold the negligent person legally accountable for the harm caused, an experienced birth injury attorney can
help.
How Negligence Happens?
Now you must be thing that what could be the reasons for the negligence? There are many factors that may be involved in negligence and can result in birth injury, but main amongst them are lack of training, fatigue, and plain old carelessness. To cite an example, doctor may fail to use or read an infant heart rate monitor or other medical technology properly, or cause C-section injuries by deviating from the accepted procedural standards. Sometimes, labor and delivery staff may overlook certain warning signs of fetal distress.
Types of Labor and Delivery Negligence
• The first and the main injury that is linked with birth injury is the injury to the brain also called as cerebral palsy, which can be caused due to lack of oxygen.
• Second injury could be categorized as physical injury like Erb’s palsy, cranial and spinal cord injury, bone injury and fractures, and infant brain damage, which can be caused due to excessive force by doctors.
• Third injury includes failure by doctors to misread heart rate monitor reports, lacking important signs of fetal distress.
• Another risk to the child could be failure by doctors to order C-section at the right time.
• Sometimes doctors fail to take transmission-prevention steps in HIV-positive mothers that can cause infection in children.
• Another injury has been dubbed as vacuum birth injury that could be caused due to misuse of vacuum extraction.
• The last but not the least, failure to prevent or treat umbilical cord strangulation can have fatal consequences.
Damage Claims for Labor and Delivery Negligence Cases
In order to identify signs of negligence, your birth injury attorney should be able to evaluate labor and delivery reports. He should have a deep understanding of the C-section standards set forth by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG). Finally, he should work with other medical experts to investigate your child’s birth and discover if medical mistakes occurred during delivery.
If you are going to claim for your case then these are the few key points you should be aware of that includes: When were signs of distress discovered? Who was in charge of fetal monitoring? Were changes in condition reported to the correct physician and how were they handled? Does the chronological timeline of your child’s delivery make sense?
Damage Settlements in Labor and Delivery Negligence
Cases
Attorney Bob Goldwater built the ‘The Birth Injury Lawyers Group’ with a foundational philosophy of respect and compassion for injured victims. Mr. Goldwater helps personal injury clients throughout the United States. The Birth Injury Lawyers Group has become such a popular personal injury law firm because of the team’s innate ability to identify and prove negligent behavior. The competent legal professionals of the group fight for the rights of children and parents affected by birth injury as if the pain and suffering were our own. Though, the agency had its headquarters in Arizona, they work with law firms across the country and represent birth injury victims nationwide.