Sacramento Birth Injury Lawyer Blog

The following blog entry is written to illustrate an example of a birth injury case. Reviewing this kind of lawsuit should help potential plaintiffs and clients better understand how parties in personal injury cases present such issues to the court.

(Please also note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this birth injury lawsuit and its proceedings.)

INJURIES: Alex was born with cerebral palsy with moderate to severe developmental delay.

Facts:
On May 21, 2004, plaintiff, age and profession undisclosed, was due to give birth. In the preceding months, her pregnancy was being followed by obstetrician Hammer and a nurse practitioner at the ABC Medical Center.

All exams were recorded on a computer. An early ultrasound was normal, and Plaintiff’s AFP testing was normal. However, the computer program made it difficult to compare results from successive exams without printing out additional documents. Thus, there were no notes recording that Plaintiff had minimal weight gain in her last trimester or that there was a significant discrepancy between her fundal heights and gestational age.

On May 8, the fundal height dropped from 36 cm to 33 cm with a three-pound weight gain over the previous 11 weeks.

On May 14, Plaintiff was at 39 weeks gestation, and the fundal height was 34 cm.

For more information you are welcome to contact Sacramento personal injury lawyer, Moseley Collins.

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The following blog entry is written to illustrate an example of a birth injury case. Reviewing this kind of lawsuit should help potential plaintiffs and clients better understand how parties in personal injury cases present such issues to the court.

(Please also note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this birth injury lawsuit and its proceedings.)

Instead of attending to her patient as she had promised, defendant Brady kept her vacation plans at that time without properly transferring plaintiff's care to another doctor. Plaintiff said she felt alone, frightened, and abandoned. During defendant Brady's absence, plaintiff was examined by an on-call perinatologist covering at the hospital that weekend, Dr. Grady. Grady testified that he was asked by someone to see the patient, but that defendant Brady never conferred with him over the next three days.

Mercy Hospital’s attending perinatologist, Dr. Herman, saw plaintiff on October 22, 2004. Although defendant Brady was still plaintiff's physician, plaintiffs said, she was not caring for or communicating with her patient. When Dr. Herman took over plaintiff's care, he observed through vaginal ultrasound that defendant Brady had performed the cerclage improperly and had used the wrong procedure. The cerclage failed as a result. By the time plaintiff was informed about her true condition and Dr. Herman explained her options to receive an abdominal cerclage to try to rescue the babies, it was too late. Plaintiff's lower, exposed twin (minor plaintiff #1) had developed IAIS-Intra-Amniotic Infection Syndrome, which set off a series of events. The option for an abdominal, rescue cerclage was no longer available. The infection necessitated a lengthy hospital stay, and ultimately, when it spread from twin #1 to the upper twin (minor plaintiff #2), the babies had to be delivered by Cesarean Section at 24 weeks gestation.

For more information you are welcome to contact Sacramento personal injury lawyer, Moseley Collins.

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The following blog entry is written to illustrate an example of a birth injury case. Reviewing this kind of lawsuit should help potential plaintiffs and clients better understand how parties in personal injury cases present such issues to the court.

(Please also note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this birth injury lawsuit and its proceedings.)

Plaintiff remained in the hospital for two days but said she was never told that her cervix tore or that defendant Brady had encountered complications with the procedure. Defendant Brady also failed to monitor the cerclage after the procedure through ultrasound. Plaintiff was sent home with limited instructions for bed rest. Despite knowing that she had encountered complications with the procedure, the doctor assured plaintiffs and plaintiff’s mother, that the operation had been a complete success and that there was “no way” that the cerclage would come undone. After returning home, plaintiff complied with her doctor's orders and stayed off her feet as much as possible. Two weeks later, she experienced a loss of fluid and sought an emergency appointment with her doctor, who was again unavailable for several days. After plaintiff, her husband, and her mother all called defendant Brady's office without success in reaching the doctor, plaintiff finally spoke to an after-hours on-call physician, who advised her she could wait to see her doctor until the next morning. The next day, October 18, 2004, defendant Brady was gone to a conference, so plaintiff was seen by defendant Brady's nurse practitioner, who observed that she was now up to 4 cm dilated with the membranes of the lower twin presenting through the cervix. Colleen was rushed to the hospital by fire department paramedics.

For more information you are welcome to contact Sacramento personal injury lawyer, Moseley Collins.

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The following blog entry is written to illustrate an example of a birth injury case. Reviewing this kind of lawsuit should help potential plaintiffs and clients better understand how parties in personal injury cases present such issues to the court.

(Please also note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this birth injury lawsuit and its proceedings.)

CASE INFORMATION
FACTS/CONTENTIONS
According to court records: Plaintiffs, husband and wife, became pregnant with twins through in-vitro fertilization in approximately June 2004 after attempting for five years to get pregnant. Plaintiff had previously suffered an ectopic pregnancy resulting in the loss of one fallopian tube.

Plaintiff presented with numerous high risk factors, including advanced maternal age (38 years), a negative Rh factor, a clotting disorder, and a multiple pregnancy resulting from IVF therapy when she sought medical care from defendant Brady, M.D. and her medical corporation Brady, M.D. Inc. through her medical practice located in Roseville, California in August 2004. Before seeing defendant Brady, plaintiff had been pregnant with triplets. She lost one of the babies before consulting with defendant Brady.

For more information you are welcome to contact Sacramento personal injury lawyer, Moseley Collins.

Continue reading " Doctor Negligence Results in Sacramento Birth Injuries Suffered By Twins During Delivery, Part 1 of 3 " »