Newborn strokes, cerebral palsy, and medical malpractice
Strokes at or around the time birth can cause brain damage or cerebral palsy
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Therapeutic hypothermia cooling therapy may hide newborn brain injuries
This standard treatment can reduce the degree of brain damage caused that low oxygen causes in infants, but can also obscure permanent injuries
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What do newborn Apgar scores mean when it comes to cerebral palsy and brain or birth injury?
Apgar scores are assessed and documented for newborns at 1-minute and 5-minutes after birth
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What you should know about meconium, meconium aspiration syndrome & medical malpractice
Meconium can be a sign of fetal distress if it passes birth or during delivery
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New Texas law restores common sense, will benefit some medical medical malpractice victims
Law reduces the circumstances when the burdensome "willful and wanton negligence" standard applies
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Failure to diagnose and control childbirth-related bleeding can cause Sheehan's syndrome
Bleeding-related pregnancy complications are on the rise in Texas and the United States as a whole
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Poor nursing communication tied to death of mother hours after delivery of her baby
A jury awarded $6 million to this mom's survivors because of a nurse's delay in telling doctors about her problems breathing
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Hypothermia therapy is a time-sensitive treatment for babies with an HIE birth-related brain injury
Hypothermia therapy may minimize the impact of a hypoxic-ischemic insult on a baby's brain
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Spina bifida diagnosis, pre-birth surgical treatment, and medical malpractice
Spina bifida is the most common permanently-disabling birth defect
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Texas Supreme Court opinion changes birth injury standard of proof
As published in "The Houston Lawyer" magazine
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