Birth Injuries
A birth injury or death to a newborn child causes immense heartbreak for a family and a lifetime of emotional and financial hardship for the child and parents. Our Columbus birth injury lawyers can determine if there was a delivery room error or if your physician was negligent and failed to diagnose and treat prenatal and/or birth complications.
Types of Birth Injuries
A variety of conditions can contribute to birth injuries. Our Columbus attorneys can help you seek damages if your newborn suffered trauma from:
- Brachial Plexus injury
- Cerebral palsy
- Erb’s Palsy
- Injury due to forceps or vacuum extractor
- Internal bleeding
- Kernicterus
- Placental abruption
- Premature delivery
- Shoulder dystocia
- Spinal cord injuries
- Stillbirth
- Umbilical cord compression
Causes of Birth Injuries
Your child’s birth injury may be the result of negligence before, during or after delivery. These may include:
- Anesthesia errors
- Delay in ordering a cesarean section (c-section)
- Improper monitoring of the child’s vitals
- Incorrect positioning of the baby or mother for delivery
- Improper use of forceps or a vacuum extractor during delivery
- Inappropriately administrating Pitocin
- Medication errors
- Failure to anticipate complications related to the mother’s health, or complication due to the weight of the child
- Failure to diagnose and treat gestational diabetes, infections, jaundice, meningitis, eclampsia or pre-eclampsia during pregnancy
- Failure to manage premature labor
- Failure to observe or respond to umbilical cord entrapment
- Failure to perform genetic testing
- Failure to recognize and treat seizures following delivery
- Failure to respond to bleeding or fetal distress