Some of the more common injuries stem from blunt force, penetration, or swelling, or are
the result of oxygen deprivation - or a combination of any of the above.
If the delay in performing an indicated C - section results in injury or death to the fetus as
a result of oxygen deprivation from umbilical cord or placenta complications, for example, the physician responsible for the delay may be found to have been negligent and therefore liable for the fetus's resultant injury or death.
Not exact matches
The authors state, «We believe a revision
of the operative definition
of OSA may be necessary, to reflect not simply the frequency
of apneas and hypopneas, but the actual physiologic consequences that
result — the severity
of oxygen desaturation, sleep fragmentation, sleep
deprivation and sympathetic activation.
The condition is generally caused by damage to the brain, but the injury may be the
result of any number
of things such as trauma,
oxygen deprivation, infection, stroke, chemical imbalance in the body, or drug abuse.
However, significant
oxygen deprivation may
result instead in brain damage and loss
of income, in which case the person and / or their family or spouse might possibly be able to bring a suit in negligence, and so the legal question is not really irrelevant.
This was caused by a delay in delivery and
deprivation of oxygen, which ultimately
resulted in severe brain injury to the child who died shortly after birth.
Any
deprivation of oxygen, or birth asphyxia, to a child's brain during childbirth can
result in an infant's mild to severe birth injury or death.
A variety
of birth injuries to a child's brain may
result from a
deprivation of oxygen, either during the mother's pregnancy or the labor and delivery stages
of childbirth, or from trauma to a child's head during labor or delivery.
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.
Cerebral palsy can be triggered by maternal infections that affect the fetus prior to birth, it can
result due to
oxygen deprivation during birth, or as a
result of a stroke or infection in a young infant.
Cerebral palsy is the name given to a collection
of symptoms
resulting from
deprivation of blood and
oxygen to the brain.