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Parents Sue Lakeland Regional Medical Center for Daughter’s Brain Injury
According to the News Chief, a Florida couple is suing Lakeland Regional Medical Center and Central Florida Health Care alleging medical errors caused their daughter’s cerebral palsy. Fiona and Stanley Brown, parents of 6-year-old Fiona Brown, claim the hospital and two registered nurse practitioners, Pamela Barany and Joan Sarratt Bardo, were negligent and caused Destiny’s brain injury. According to the complaint, Central Florida Health Care DBA Lakeland OB-GYN provided Fiona Brown with prenatal care throughout her pregnancy. Brown went for a regular check up on September 28, 2005 and nurses observed signs and symptoms of high blood pressure. A nurse midwife in the office instructed Brown to go to the Lakeland Regional Medical Center for a further observation. At the hospital, the fetal monitor strip indicated a decrease in fetal heart rate. Brown was 38 weeks pregnant at the time when medical personnel informed her that she needed an emergency…
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Texas Couple Seeks New Law After Traumatic Home Birth
According to Texas Watch, when they found out about their pregnancy, Tina and Frank Comstive of Houston, Texas, decided on a home birth using a midwife. The Comstives found out about Tina’s pregnancy just shortly after the loss of Tina’s 58 year old mother to cancer, overshadowing the joy of their pregnancy. Many women today decide that hiring a midwife and having their babies at home is an ideal solution for whatever issues may be affecting them at the time, whether it be to save money over a hospital birth or, such as the Comstives’ case: a lack of maternity insurance. One night in May 2010, Tina woke to use the restroom. For most women, a late-night trip to the bathroom is nothing unusual, but the tables turned for Tina when she discovered blood. Her midwife arrived within half an hour afterwards. Tina’s midwife decided that it was safe for…
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Brain Hibernation for Stroke Victims
According to Nursing Times, researchers have made recent claims that lowering the temperature of the brain could help victims of stroke by preventing death or disability from occurring. A group of these researchers are seeking to acquire funding for a trial in 21 countries in Europe, involving 80 hospitals. They hope to reach 1,500 patients. Lowering the temperature of the brain puts it into a state of hibernation, causing it to require less oxygen. This reduces damage and gives doctors more time to deal with damaged blood vessels. Currently, doctors use this same technique of putting the brain into hibernation for patients who have an elevated risk of brain damage, either due to cardiac health issues or due to birth defects. Dr. Malcom Macleod of the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh notes that one European dies from a stroke every 90 seconds. Approximately double that…
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