Birth Injury Claims

    /24-7PressRelease/ - June 11, 2008 - Birth injury can turn one of life's most joyous moments into one of life's greatest tragedies. The death of a child is the most painful event a parent can experience. Children who survive birth injury, often have shortened lives and suffer from permanent physical and/or mental disabilities.

Parents, siblings, grandparents, and other loved ones of a birth injured child face overwhelming physical, emotional, and financial hardships. Children with birth injuries often require a lifetime of medical supervision and twenty-four hour care. Many parents must quit their jobs to care for injured children, making the financial burden of medical expenses, therapy, and special education even more difficult to meet.

Birth injuries require quick action
Early detection and treatment can mean full or partial recovery for some children, and allow them to go on to live a normal life. If your child has suffered a birth injury or it appears that your child may have suffered a birth injury, seek medical attention right away. Medial intervention can sometimes stop or reverse damage cause during or immediately after birth.

Depending on the type of injury your child has suffered, he or she may require surgery, medications, or physical therapy. All of these come at great financial expense. Your child's best hope is in getting the best, most advanced treatment available. If your child has suffered a preventable birth injury, getting the compensation that you deserve may be your only means of providing the care your child needs and can mean the difference between recovery and permanent disability.

Common birth injuries
Birth injuries can cause temporary or permanent damage to the brain and body. Some can be reversed, but many cause permanent disability, and many are fatal. Common preventable birth injuries, caused by medical negligence include:
• Brachial plexus injuries (including Klumpke's Palsy/Erb's palsy)
• Brain injury (including Cerebral palsy)
• Untreated jaundice
• Infections
• Meconium aspiration
• Spasticity
• Paralysis
• Seizures
• Bruising from forceps
• Skull fractures
• Excessive bleeding
• Bleeding beneath the scalp
• Bleeding inside the skull
• Clavicle fractures
• Spinal cord damage
• Cranial nerve trauma
• Facial paralysis
• Soft tissue injuries
• Skin irritation
• Stillbirth

Birth injury causes
Birth injuries are almost always preventable. Common causes of birth injuries include:
• Infections and medical problems in the mother
• Administration of improper medications during pregnancy and/or delivery
• Rh incompatibility
• Infections and medical problems in the fetus
• Pre or post mature delivery due to improper dating
• Miscalculation of the size of the fetus
• Failure to monitor fetus and respond to fetal distress
• Failure to perform a timely c-section
• Abnormal presentation, including shoulder dystocia
• Improper use of delivery instruments
• Failure to give oxygen to newborns when needed

If your child has suffered a birth injury or birth trauma in New Jersey, please contact our New Jersey malpractice lawyers today.

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