Category Archives: Birth Trauma
Parents Of Lost Son Give Back To Community
According to LoHud.com, a news site based out of New York’s Hudson Valley, one charitable family puts a lot of thought and care into deciding how to allot their time and resources. Ilana and Glen Meyers head the Slater Jett Myers Foundation, which has contributed more than $500,000 to various programs and charities in the region, mostly those that deal with children who suffered birth trauma injuries and other birth defects. Some of their projects have included a therapeutic gym for children and other equipment to assist with their mobility. The Meyers had an infant son die of a brain injury 11 years ago, Slater Jett Meyers, for which the organization is named. “I look at these organizations with whom we partner, and when I see the children I think this would be m the children I think this would be my son,” says Ilana Meyers. “I ask, ‘What would…
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C-section Results in Fatal Birth Injury
Doctors all over the world regularly perform cesarean sections every day, usually without any problems due to advances in modern medicine. However, an infant born at Shaktinagar District Hospital in India died last month due to a slip of the doctor’s surgical knife during a C-section. The surgeon cut a one-inch deep gash on the newborn’s head. According to The Times of India, the mother’s family filed a complaint with police, but the doctor states that the electricity went off in the operating room at the time that he made his surgical mistake. The surgeon admits that he did wound the baby with his surgical knife, and he reported following protocol by stitching the wound, administering saline and giving the newborn oxygen. However, the infant died that night. The superintendent of the hospital provides a differing account of the power outage, since he states that the power was never out…
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Settlement to Child with Cerebral Palsy Upheld
Christian Arroyo, an eight-year-old quadriplegic with cerebral palsy, is happy and loving, but he requires constant care. Christian’s problems resulted from a common neonatal blood infection, easily treatable with the use of antibiotics. However, doctors and nurses at Erie Family Health Center, a federal government-funded clinic, left him untreated for more than 12 hours, which led to brain damage. Christian’s parents won a $29.1 million lawsuit last year due to medical negligence, but the government appealed the decision on the grounds of an untimely claim, since the Arroyos did not file their claim until two years later. The U.S. Court of Appeals recently upheld the 2010 verdict, noting that the doctors never informed the family that antibiotics would have prevented brain damage. Instead, the Arroyos discovered the negligence when their second son, born a year later, received immediate treatment with antibiotics for the same problem. The family’s lawyer explained that…
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