A Birth Injury Lawyer Can Help In The Case of A Child Birth Injury

Kahn Gauthier Swick is investigating legal actions on behalf of the parents of children who suffered harm due to birth injury medical negligence during the birthing process. These birth injury legal actions can be brought against the doctors and nurses who participated in the birth injury by a lawyer, and sometimes also the medical facility at which the delivery birth injury took place. The parents' claims in these birth injury actions assert that the defendants were negligent. That they failed to adhere to the standard of care that is required when assisting in a birth. A lawyer at Kahn Gauthier is standing by to review your case.

Reasons Why You May Need A Birth Injury Lawyer

There are a large number of different types of birth injury a baby can suffer during the birthing process. These include brachial plexus injury, cerebral palsy, Group B streptococcus infection, head trauma, facial nerve trauma, spinal cord trauma, intracranial hemorrhage , bone fractures, and other birth injuries.

Other Birth Trauma Injuries

Head Trauma: Mild trauma may cause caput succedaneum--edema of the presenting portion of the scalp--as this area is forced against the cervix. Greater trauma may cause subgaleal hemorrhage, which is characterized by a boggy feeling over the entire scalp.

Depressed skull fractures are uncommon. Most result from forceps pressure; rarely, they are caused by the head's resting on a bony prominence in the uterus. Depressed skull fractures or other head trauma may be associated with subdural bleeding, subarachnoid hemorrhage, or contusion or laceration of the brain itself.

Facial Nerve Trauma: Although frequently attributed to forceps pressure, most trauma probably results from pressure on the nerve in utero, which may be due to fetal positioning or to pressure against the nerve by the sacral promontory or a uterine fibroid.

Spinal Cord Trauma: Spinal cord trauma is rare and may cause variable cord disruption, often with hemorrhage. Complete disruption of the cord is very rare. Contact us today for a free birth injury case evaluation by a lawyer. Trauma usually occurs in breech deliveries after excess longitudinal traction to the spine. It can also follow hyperextension of the fetal neck in utero. Injury usually affects the lower cervical region (C5-C7). When the injury is higher, the lesions are generally fatal because respiration is compromised.

Intracranial Hemorrhage: Hemorrhage in or around the brain can be life-threatening in newborns, especially those born prematurely. Hypoxia-ischemia, variations in blood pressure, and pressures exerted on the head during labor are major causes of intracranial hemorrhage. Hemorrhage can occur in several spaces. Sign up and contact a birth injury lawyer. About 20% of premature infants weighing less than 1500 grams (three pounds) have intracranial hemorrhage.

Fractures: Midclavicular fracture, the most common fracture during birth, usually occurs with shoulder dystocia (difficulty in delivering the fetal shoulders after delivery of the head). Most clavicular fractures heal rapidly and uneventfully. The major significance of clavicular fractures is their tendency to cause brachial plexus injury or pneumothorax from perforation of the apical pleura. The humerus and the femur may be fractured during difficult deliveries.

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