The birth of your baby should have been a joyous occasion. If you experienced a difficult labor or delivery, however, you’re likely dealing with a growing number of concerns and fears. If you’ve learned that your baby suffered from hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation, you’re probably wondering what this means for your baby. It’s important that your family has an advocate who understands the laws related to medical errors.
Don’t wait to contact a hypoxia law firm. At LawMD, many of our attorneys are also licensed medical professionals. We have decades of legal and medical insights that we are ready to utilize in pursuing the justice and fair compensation you and your child deserve.
Simply put, hypoxia is a medical term for oxygen deprivation. Hypoxia occurs when your baby’s oxygen supply is limited or cut off altogether, and it can affect your baby’s brain or organs.
When babies are in the womb, they receive oxygen through the blood, which is transferred through the umbilical cord. One of the common ways in which hypoxia occurs involves the crushing of the umbilical cord. Another common cause of hypoxia is when the mother’s blood pressure unexpectedly drops.
Unfortunately, hypoxia can happen at any point during gestation. Blood pressure in the mother can rise and fall at any point. However, during labor and delivery, there are certain standards used to monitor the baby’s well-being, such as fetal heart rate monitoring. These new standards can alert medical professionals to hypoxia. When the monitoring doctor/nurse notices signs of fetal distress, action can be taken to help prevent permanent damage.
If your baby suffered permanent injuries from hypoxia, contact Nationwide birth injury lawyers who can help you determine if medical malpractice played a role in your child’s injuries.
Hypoxia can cause severe, lifelong, and sometimes fatal problems for babies. Certain causes of hypoxia, such as placental abruption, endanger both the mother and the child.
Additionally, hypoxia can cause:
Significant injuries caused by hypoxia can cause your child to need a lifetime of therapy, medical care, prescription medications, and treatment. It’s a hard road to travel. Fortunately, you don’t have to do it alone. Although hypoxia can occur at any point of gestation, it often happens during labor and delivery as a result of medical negligence. When this is the case, parents have the right to take legal action against the negligent party/parties.
LawMD stands ready to advocate for your family. Many of our birth injury attorneys are also medical doctors, providing them with a rich understanding of both the legal and medical aspects of your situation. We use our extensive medical malpractice experience to help those in need.
LawMD doesn’t charge any up-front costs or fees for families living with the aftermath of hypoxia. You do not have to face this new set of challenges alone; you can get the advocacy and compensation that your family needs to meet the future needs of your baby.
WE UNDERSTAND YOUR INJURIES, BECAUSE WE’VE LIKELY TREATED THEM.
Most of our physician-attorneys are either current or past treating doctors in, collectively, a wide range of medical specialties. There is a good chance one or more of our physician attorneys have actually treated medical conditions similar to the ones from which you or your loved one now suffers. That translates into care and understanding as your Counselors, and know-how as your Advocates.
TIME- AND COST-SAVINGS FOR YOUR CASE
Any honest medical malpractice attorney will tell you that one of the greatest expenses in a medical malpractice case is having to pay physician experts to study the details of the medical issues in your case and, if necessary, provide testimony at deposition and trial. While even our physician attorneys may also need to hire outside medical experts for your case, our medical know-how allows us to perform a significant amount of the medical analysis necessary for your case in-house which may translate into significant savings at the conclusion of your case.
RAPID RESPONSE WITH SOLID ANSWERS TO YOUR SERIOUS QUESTIONS REGARDING YOUR CASE
Because we have in-house medical know-how, we can evaluate the medical questions in your case and provide answers without a lengthy wait. Our internal process involves getting the issues in your case quickly in front of the right physician attorney who, based on his or her medical experience and training, is most likely to have the answers you seek about whether you have a case and how we might help you get the compensation you deserve to help secure a brighter future for you and for your loved ones.
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