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Illinois Mother Awarded $101 Million for Child’s Brain Injuries
An Illinois mother was recently awarded $101 million after she sued her hospital when her child sustained brain injuries during birth. According to WLS, a Cook County jury awarded the woman the money for her lawsuit against West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park. The woman’s lawsuit claimed that her now five-year-old son suffered permanent brain injuries because nurses and staff members ignored her concerns about not being able to feel her unborn baby moving prior to his birth. She reportedly showed up at the hospital and an ultrasound showed the child was not moving, but nurses did not report the findings to doctors. She then allegedly waited for five hours before the delivery process began. When the child was born, he was limp, pale and not breathing, according to the lawsuit. It was later determined that the child may have had brain damage due to a lack of oxygen….
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Birth Trauma Lawyer Sees Hospital Negligence as Cause for Infant’s Brain Damage
A lawsuit has been filled against Bayshore Medical Center, claiming that the obstetrician’s failure to perform a timely C-section led to a baby’s brain injuries. The lawsuit states that the mother was admitted to the South Texas hospital at full term to give birth to her baby, but that the medical team failed to observe and document significant changes in the health and medical condition of both the mother and her unborn child, which ultimately caused brain damage. The complaint alleges that since the medical team did not observe or document any problems with the baby and yet the baby subsequently had brain damage, then clearly the medical team failed in its duty to provide adequate care. Additionally, other complaints filed against the medical team in the lawsuit includes failure to perform an emergency C-section in a timely manner, failure to perform the C-section in a sterile environment, failure to…
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Study: One in Two Children With Cerebral Palsy Has Speech Disorder
After studying 129 children with cerebral palsy, Swedish researchers found that half of them suffered from some form of speech difficulty; 21 percent had a speech disorder, and 32 percent were nonverbal. Cerebral palsy often results from errors during labor. The researchers think that the error’s timing plays a role in the speech disorder’s severity. They looked at the correlation between brain injuries sustained during birth or pregnancy and the resulting speech problems. “Lesions acquired late in gestation, around or after birth, were most common in the nonverbal group, while periventricular white matter lesions, acquired late in the second and early in the third trimester, were most common in children without speech disorders,” the research team wrote in its report. Speech problems are just one obstacle facing children with cerebral palsy. Others include limited mobility, paralysis, paraplegia, cognitive disorders and learning impairments. In many cases, proper medical care can foresee…
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