A San Francisco Birth Injury Lawyer
Electric fetal monitoring offers a way for OBGYNs, nurses and midwives to continuously evaluate the baby’s health inside the womb during labor. External monitoring is when the monitor is placed over the laboring mother’s belly. Internal monitoring is when the monitor is attached in utero to the baby’s head. Occasionally, proper monitoring is not conducted, leading to an increased risk of birth-related injuries.
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When Those Entrusted to Your Care Fail You
The baby cannot speak for him or herself. The nurse and doctors who are helping the laboring mother must be the baby’s advocate. Yet there are times when the nurse’s attention is divided. A doctor who has attended countless births may simply not pay attention. An anesthesiologist may not monitor the mother after she has been given drugs to induce or support labor.
What happens when those entrusted to safeguard the baby’s birth are negligent and fail to notice fetal distress?
Consequences of Fetal Distress
The consequences for failure to monitor fetal distress in a baby can be disastrous. A baby can suffer from serious, permanent damage, including severe brain injury and cerebral palsy.
Helping Clients Uncover the Truth and Seek Justice
The electronic fetal monitoring strips will tell the story of the baby’s health throughout the labor and delivery. They can also help in telling us what went wrong.
We have returned sizable results in our cases to families whose babies have needed significant medical care and who will continue to need special care throughout the duration of their lives. Negligence can include failure to:
- Monitor mother or infant before, during and after childbirth
- Take prompt action in response to signs of fetal distress
- Respond in a timely fashion to fetal distress as indicated on the heart rate monitor
- Appropriately interpret signs of fetal distress
- Assess and treat an infectious process
- Limit ongoing labor when progress is not being made
- Treat preeclampsia or maternal high blood pressure where indicated
- Avoid premature labor and premature delivery
Whether you are facing a case of Drug malpractice that caused an injury to your baby, Fetal Monitoring problems or Cerebral Palsy, our Attorneys are experienced in all aspects of prenatal problems and will defend your rights.
In these delicate and difficult cases, the experience of our Attorneys and the empathetic approach makes our Law Firm the choice for hundreds of clients.
We represent all personal injury clients on a contingency fee basis, which means we charge no attorney’s fee unless we win results on your behalf. Contact us to get a free consultation!