Medical Malpractice Settlement, Brooklyn, NY
$5,493,000.00 Settlement
Medical Malpractice: Midwife mismanaged labor causing brain damage and Cerebral Palsy.
The baby’s mother, a lawyer, was in labor for 48 hours following rupture of membranes (bag of waters). During the last 10 hours of labor the baby suffered continuous fetal distress as recorded on the fetal monitoring strips. Despite these ominous signs, the midwife never called for the assistance of an Obstetrician as she was required to do. The midwife and nursing records showed they misinterpreted the fetal monitor tracing, which actually showed the heart beat of the mother and not the infant.
Compounding that malpractice, following the birth of the baby, the child was placed on the mother’s stomach for “bonding” until a family member yelled out that the baby wasn’t breathing. The baby’s Apgar scores were 1 at 1 minute and 4 at 5 minutes. These scores, which measure the well being of a newborn, were devastatingly low. No pediatrician was in the delivery room, despite the fact that the midwife and nurse “lost” the baby’s heart beat. The child was finally admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with respiratory distress, intubated and on a respirator.
This unfortunate child suffered multi-organ failure. She is severely retarded with quadraspastic quadriplegia. She is feed through a feeding tube that enters her stomach through a “port” in her belly. She has seizures on almost a daily basis. The settlement will provide for a lifetime of proper care.
Medical Malpractice: Midwife mismanaged labor causing brain damage and Cerebral Palsy.
The baby’s mother, a lawyer, was in labor for 48 hours following rupture of membranes (bag of waters). During the last 10 hours of labor the baby suffered continuous fetal distress as recorded on the fetal monitoring strips. Despite these ominous signs, the midwife never called for the assistance of an Obstetrician as she was required to do. The midwife and nursing records showed they misinterpreted the fetal monitor tracing, which actually showed the heart beat of the mother and not the infant.
Compounding that malpractice, following the birth of the baby, the child was placed on the mother’s stomach for “bonding” until a family member yelled out that the baby wasn’t breathing. The baby’s Apgar scores were 1 at 1 minute and 4 at 5 minutes. These scores, which measure the well being of a newborn, were devastatingly low. No pediatrician was in the delivery room, despite the fact that the midwife and nurse “lost” the baby’s heart beat. The child was finally admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with respiratory distress, intubated and on a respirator.
This unfortunate child suffered multi-organ failure. She is severely retarded with quadraspastic quadriplegia. She is feed through a feeding tube that enters her stomach through a “port” in her belly. She has seizures on almost a daily basis. The settlement will provide for a lifetime of proper care.
Labels: Brain Damage, Cerebral Palsy, Low Apgar Score
posted by Richard Gurfein at
11:18 AM
1 Comments:
The key activity for the labor period is fetal monitoring. Attaching the mother-to-be to the monitor is usually one of the first actions of the labor and delivery nurse. The purpose of fetal monitoring is early detection of any fetal distress with immediate appropriate action. Fetal distress is due to a loss of umbilical cord blood flow within the uterus, and it is life-threatening to the baby. Action must be taken right away in this case. Even a few minutes lost could be catastrophic.
The nurses have to opera
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