Experienced Birth Injury Attorneys Serving Clients across the U.S.
There are about four million births in the United States every year, and over 30 percent of these are cesarean sections. According to the World Health Organization, there is no empirical evidence to support an improvement in overall maternal and fetal outcomes once a country’s C-section rate exceeds 15 percent. Yet, there is no question that emergency C-sections are life-saving procedures for many mothers and babies. Without this important surgery, childbirth would claim thousands of lives every year.
As C-section rates in the U.S. have climbed, however, patients have begun to question whether a C-section is always the safest choice.
In some situations, doctors must rush into a C-section because they waited too long to deliver a baby or because they failed to properly monitor the fetus, leading to a cascade of interventions ending in an emergency procedure. Because emergency C-sections carry a much higher risk than planned cesareans, it’s critical for doctors to adhere to a high standard of care for each and every patient.
Medicine, and especially obstetrics, is unpredictable. In the labor and delivery unit, there are two lives at stake: the mother and the baby. Doctors are not perfect; they are subject to the same errors in judgment as anyone else. When their actions or inactions cause harm to a mother or an unborn child, they must be held responsible for any injuries that result.
At LawMD, our birth injury lawyers help families hurt by medical mistakes during emergency C-sections. If you or your child suffered injuries or complications following an emergency C-section, contact birth injury attorneys to fight for your recovery.
