Woman Whose Baby Died Sues Paramedics Who Took Too Long To Get Them To A Hospital
Paramedics, who are typically the first on the scene of a medical emergency must administer treatment that meets the applicable standard of care
. As the first to respond we expect paramedics to have the knowledge, training, and experience to discern between conditions that can be treated at the scene from the ones that need immediate transport to a hospital with the appropriate equipment and full medical staff. In what follows we explore a claim in which paramedics answered a call from a pregnant woman who had experienced a placental abruption at nearly full term of her pregnancy. The paramedics failed to recognize the symptoms exhibited by the pregnant woman, such as the fact that she was in shock from blood loss, and failed to take her right away to a hospital. In the time that lapsed the baby's oxygen supply was restricted as a result of the abruption.Their not taking fast action resulted in a lapse of time of at least eighteen minutes. In the 18 minute delay before the expecting mother was taken to the hospital the baby was deprived of an appropriate supply of oxygen due to her loss of blood from the placental abruption.. The newborn survived for merely one day after birth. The mother's blood loss was so extreme that she had to undergo further surgery to control the bleeding and later temporarily lost kidney function. The law firm that handled the legal claim named the paramedics in the lawsuit.
Every State has its own specific laws for medical malpractice and wrongful death cases. Certain States have laws that enable only the mother to follow a lawsuit for the loss of newborn as a consequence malpractice. In the State where this lawsuit arose the legal requirements for a mother to pursue a claim for the emotional harm she experienced due to her baby's death are as follow. First, that the mother suffered a physical injury. Second, that the injury was one that would normally not happen in a normal childbirth. And third, that the injury to the mother was caused by the same act of malpractice that resulted in the newborn's death. The mother suffered from a severe depression six months following her newborn's death. The mother was treated with therapy as well as medication. Still, as of the report of the case she was still depressed and expected to require medication for the remainder of her life. The mother met those requirements.|All three requisites were fulfilled in this case.|With the injuries the woman herself endured from the delay by the paramedics, she was able to pursue a claim.
The mother was successful. The law firm that represented her reported that after taking the case to trial the jury returned a verdict in her favor and awarded her $4,500,000. Paramedics are health care providers. They are trained and they are licensed. They are supposed to be able to identify signs of emergency health issues and to take proper and timely action. If they do not and their actions fall short of the applicable standard of care, they may be liable.
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