Parents And Medical Staff Settle Claim For Death Of Unborn Child
Most women choose their obstetrician meticulously
. And then over the course of their pregnancy they come to develop a bond with their obstetrician and begin to have faith in him or her. They frequently think their obstetrician, who has been following the pregnancy throughout, is intimately aware of their situation.Now envision how a woman might feel near full-term, finding herself facing a possible serious complication, being informed that her obstetrician is heading to the hospital to care for her and take care of the the situation. Imagine the numerous emotions that must go through this womans mind she wants to wait for her doctor as has placed her faither in him or her but she becomes increasingly worried over the wellbeing of her unborn baby as the seconds, the minutes, and then even the hours go by without her doctor appearing. Still she would moreover probably trust that the nurses and staff around her would take any necessary steps if there were any actual danger to her baby.
In one published lawsuit an woman who, at near term of her pregnancy, had experienced a fall was transported to a local hospital to check on the welfare of her unborn baby. The woman underwent an ultrasound which was interpreted as negative and as not showing harm to the unborn child from the fall. The expectant mother continued to be concerned about the wellbeing of her baby and asked for fetal heart rate monitoring. Since the hospital did not have the right equipment they arranged to have her transported to a different hospital which did. The staff contacted the expectant mothers obstetrician who told them that he would meet her at the other hospital.
After being transported to the second hospital she was connected to monitoring equipment. Her obstetrician was not at the hospital. The strips from the fetal heart monitor suggested that her unborn child was in fetal distress and that the condition was getting worse. The staff waited for 2 hours for the physician to arrive. During this time the unborn babys heard rate went down to dangerous levels. At this point the labor and delivery nurse finally called in an on call obstetrician.
This obstetrician carried out an emergency C-section. This obstetrician noticed that the fetal distress had been due to a placental abruption which had cut off the oxygen supply to the unborn child. The child was asphyxiated at birth. Apgar scores were and . The medical staff was unable to resuscitate the baby.
The law firm that handled this matter uncovered that the woman's obstetrician, after saying he would meet her at the second hospital, had instead gone home and just failed to take the time to tell anyone at the hospital about that choice. And the labor and delivery nurse, the only one who had information that the baby was in fetal distress, made the decision to continue to wait for the obstetrician not contacting the obstetrician herself to report the fetal distress and did not bring it to the attention of the in-house obstetrician until the situation turned dire. With this, the law firm published that they achieved a settlement for $750,000 for the babys parents.
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