More About Birth Injuries and the Medical Malpractice Connection

Birth injuries range from mild to severe, ranging from minor bruising to nerve or brain damage. Most medical malpractice actions are filed against doctors who have failed to use reasonable care to treat the patient. Medical error can cause birth injuries, or can increase their severity or permanence. Medical errors which may support a malpractice action include:

• Failing to anticipate birth complications with a larger baby, or in cases involving maternal health complications;
• Failure to respond appropriately to bleeding;
• Failing to observe or respond to umbilical cord entrapment;
• Failure to respond to fetal distress (including irregularities in the fetal heartbeat);
• Delay in ordering cesarean section (c-section) when medically necessary;
• Misuse of forceps or a vacuum extractor during delivery;
• Inappropriate administration of Pitocin, a synthesized hormone used to induce or augment (speed up) labor.

Birth Injury Lawyers & Attorneys Notice

While most doctors, nurses, midwives, and hospital technicians provide a high standard of care for their patients, unfortunately, many families are harmed by medical mistakes. Parents of a child suffering with a birth injury should contact an experienced Alaska injury attorney to research the cause of their child’s condition. Medical mistakes are responsible for many birth injury cases and it would be impossible for a parent, alone, to determine if medical malpractice caused their child's injury. It is only through the dedicated and thorough efforts of a legal and medical team that the cause can be ascertained.
 

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