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Newborn Suffers Brain Injury After Hospital Delays Resuscitation
Nala Myers is three years old. She cannot walk or talk. She needs a feeding tube to eat. She will require assistance for the rest of her life. She had a difficult birth. When she was born, her heart was beating, but she was not breathing. A lawsuit filed by Tierra Myers, Nala’s mother, says that the hospital acted negligently in the critical five minutes following her birth, ultimately causing a brain injury. Most hospitals record an Apgar score one minute and five minutes after delivery. Apgar scores monitor breath, heart rate, muscle tone, response to stimulation and appearance. In this case, the lawsuit claims that whoever performed the one-minute Apgar score fudged the numbers to make Nala’s condition seem healthier than it was. As a result, response teams did not arrive to resuscitate the baby until it was too late. The jury deliberated for 15 hours before ultimately siding…
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Documentary Chronicles Family Dealing with Birth Trauma
The House of Gort from Steve Tatzmann on Vimeo. The above documentary titled “The House of Gort” is an eye-opening look at the daily struggles faced by parents with special needs children. It shows the love, devotion and patience that binds the family together, along with the daily routines unique to children with cerebral palsy. It also exposes the medical negligence that caused the family’s lifelong struggles. Tim and Gina Gort live in Marquette, Michigan. They have three daughters: Gwen, 9; Violet, 3; and Eliza, 2. Both Gwen and Eliza have cerebral palsy, and all three children were born with jaundice. Complications at the Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids caused Eliza to go into cardiac arrest, causing brain damage and cerebral palsy. ‘Pushed Over the Edge’ “We felt like we were pushed over the edge once we realized the magnitude of Eliza’s brain injury,” Tim says about the…
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Boy Gets Birth Injury Award Five Years Later
It appears that the little boy who suffered a severe brain injury during his birth at a Florida hospital in 1997 will finally see the $30 million awarded to him by a Florida jury. Aaron Edwards was born at a Lee Memorial Health System hospital. In 2007, a jury found that negligent actions by nurses caused Edwards a crippling brain injury and that they failed to follow standard hospital rules and regulations. According to Roden, when her son was born, Lee Memorial was a private institution. However, by the time the lawsuit was over, Lee Memorial had been bought out by the state of Florida. As a government hospital, Lee Memorial gained sovereign immunity, which prevents individuals from collecting judgments of more than $200,000 from government agencies without the state legislature passing a bill to allow it. A few weeks ago, the Florida legislature finally heard arguments from Aaron’s mother…
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