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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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Birth Trauma Attorneys Can Help Victims of Vacuum Extraction Injuries
Using a vacuum tool during delivery is a very risky decision for doctors to make. Two Pennsylvania parents say that doctors made a series of mistakes – including using a vacuum – during their child’s birth that led to his death. Mark and Cheryl Baiocchi filed a wrongful death lawsuit against St. Mary Medical Center, Dr. Traci Cook, the Women’s Specialists of Bucks County and Catholic Health East for medical negligence. Approximately 12 hours after arriving at the hospital, Dr. Cook used a Kiwi vacuum extraction device to remove the child during labor. The doctor used the device multiple times even though it was not necessary, according to the lawsuit. The vacuum raised the child’s heart rate, causing heart tone tachychardia. The child’s shoulder became stuck, causing shoulder dystocia. When he was born, he was “cyanotic, pulseless, apneic and floppy.” Doctors transferred him to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. Doctors…
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Trial Program Shows Potential to Reduce Birth Traumas
Recently, 14 hospitals joined together to enact safety procedures that could reduce birth trauma brought on by hospital mistakes. The early results are extremely promising, according to Susan DeVore, president and CEO of Premier Inc. Premier Inc. is a “performance improvement alliance” that coordinated the effort through its Premier Perinatal Safety Initiative. “What we see from the data is that there has been a 25 percent reduction in birth hypoxia and asphyxia, which can cause infant brain damage, a 22 percent reduction in neonatal birth trauma and for just these 14 hospital over just this short period of time, there have been 30 fewer babies that have experienced these harms,” DeVore said. Premier provided hospitals with a very thorough list of criteria for physicians to follow. One of the “bundles” established by Premier involved the use of oxytocin. Oxytocin is a drug used to slow labor, and it can lead…
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