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Reducing the Rate of Birth Injuries: Our Cerebral Palsy Lawyers Discuss the Premier Perinatal Safety Initiative
During the first two years of the Premier Perinatal Safety Initiative (PPSI), 14 participating hospitals reduced the annual rate of neonatal birth trauma in their facilities by 22 percent. The hospitals also lowered the annual rate of birth hypoxia and asphyxia, which can cause infant brain damage, by 25 percent. Participating hospitals saw a 39 percent drop in annual liability claims, compared to 10 percent in non-participating hospitals in the same healthcare systems. These statistics are part of the PPSI Phase I Summary, which was published in December 2012 and covers the period from January 2008 to December 2010. A report on Phase II, which ran from January 2011 to December 2012, is expected later this year. The Premier healthcare alliance launched this initiative in an effort to significantly reduce preventable birth injuries. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Infant Health and Safety, was quoted in…
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Helping Children With Cerebral Palsy to Swim: Our Cerebral Palsy Attorneys Explain the Aquatic Stabilizer Apparatus
David Blaski, a former magician who now works as a senior clinical occupational therapist at Franciscan Omni Health and Fitness in Schererville, Ind., invented the Aquatic Stabilizer Apparatus to help children with cerebral palsy swim better. Aquatic therapy allows cerebral palsy patients to strengthen and develop their muscles in a pool, but sometimes overcoming muscular challenges in the water proves extremely difficult. The Aquatic Stabilizer Apparatus, as it is currently named, aligns the body so that children with cerebral palsy can use their arms and legs more effectively in the water. The idea for the Aquatic Stabilizer Apparatus came to Blaski when he met a young girl with cerebral palsy who, despite her love of being in the water, had trouble swimming. Her legs crisscrossed when she was in the pool. As Blaski explains, “Some kids with cerebral palsy have difficulty with muscle tone, which causes the scissoring of the…
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Non-profit Examining Correlation Between Veterans and Birth Defects
The Birth Defect Research for Children (BDRC), a non-profit based in Florida, has noticed a strong correlation between children with birth defects and parents with military experience. “Veterans are dying, but even more tragically, the children they’ve left behind are suffering,” said Betty Mekdeci, BDRC’s executive director. She says she has received many heartfelt letters from veterans and their spouses about hardships their children face, including mental retardation, cerebral palsy, deafness, blindness, physical deformities and heart defects. Mekdeci believes that chemical exposure during wartime played a role in the childrens’ disabilities. Mekdeci says that families are frustrated and do not know where to turn. She wants to create a center where affected individuals can go for solutions. “We want to serve our veterans as they have served us by petitioning for a ‘Children’s Center’ that would be staffed by specialists who would provide free diagnosis and treatment for their serious…
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