HIE injuries may result from medical malpractice during a mother's pregnancy if, for instance, nuchal cord develops and is not timely detected or handled.
If an obstetrician or other medical professional assisting or involved in a pregnant woman's care negligently fails to detect such signs of fetal asphyxia during the mother's pregnancy or the labor and delivery stages of childbirth, or to appropriately and timely respond to such signs, the obstetrician or other medical personnel may be found liable for the child's resulting
HIE injuries in a medical malpractice action.
Birth injury and HIE attorney Jeffrey Killino has extensive experience with all types of birth injury and child injury cases, including those arising out of
HIE injuries.
HIE injuries can be caused by anything that restricts or cuts off oxygen to the brain, including non-fatal drowning, strangulation, or suffocation.
The negligent failure of an obstetrician to timely order or perform an emergency Caesarian section when indicated may also be found to have caused a fetus's
HIE injury.
When this occurs, the obstetrician or medical professional responsible may be found liable for the damages suffered by a child as a result of
the HIE injury in an action for medical malpractice.
The failure by medical personnel assisting in a child's birth to adequately monitor the vital signs of the mother and fetus in order to timely recognize the existence of fetal distress may be found to constitute actionable negligence and liability on the part of such personnel if this negligence is determined to have been a cause of the child's
HIE injury.
If an obstetrician's negligent failure to timely diagnose and treat these maternal conditions is found to have been a cause of a child's HIE childbirth injury, the obstetrician may be found liable for the damages suffered by the child as a result of his or
her HIE injury.
Asphyxia may (but will not always) result in
an HIE injury.
If your child sustained
an HIE injury and you believe the injury may have been caused by medical malpractice or negligence, you may be entitled to compensation from those responsible.
Attorney Jeffrey Killino is a highly regarded birth injury and
HIE injury lawyer with extensive experience with all types of childbirth injuries.
Not exact matches
The homebirth cohort had both a higher death rate and a higher
injury rate (the two
HIE babies were homebirth).
The minor plaintiff is currently a 2 - year - old girl who suffers from hypoxic ischemic
injury (
HIE) resulting from the defendants» negligence.
If, for example, an obstetrician fails to timely order or perform a C - section when nuchal cord is detected and this failure is found to have been a cause of the baby's
HIE childbirth
injury, the obstetrician may be found liable for the damages suffered by the child as a result of the
injury in an action for medical malpractice.
HIE childbirth
injuries can occur as a result of medical malpractice during a patient's pregnancy, labor, or delivery, and may be caused by anything that cuts off oxygen to a fetus's brain.
Hypoxic birth
injuries (such as
HIE or white matter
injury) may also lead to the development of cerebral palsy.
Asphyxia birth
injuries, which are caused by a deprivation of oxygen to a fetus or newborn, are the most common type of birth
injury and include cerebral palsy and
HIE (hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy), both of which can result in lifelong damages.
Such asphyxia
injuries include cerebral palsy and
HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy), both of which are brain
injuries caused by a lack of oxygen to the fetus.