Over $4.0 Million In Settlement For Child's Injuries Due To Nurse's Error
Every day pregnant women put themselves and their unborn baby in the hands of a physician who will see them through childbirth
. It can oftentimes take a fair amount of time following the patient's admission to the hospital until the baby is born. During somepart of this time physicians at times depend on the nurses and staff to monitor the womans situation and to let them know about of any issues that might arise.The physician remains responsible for supervising the nurses and staff. Additionally, the nurses and staff are accountable for having the knowledge, training and experience to identify signs of difficulties and for notifying the physician if they do come up. Regrettably, nurses and staff on occasion do not meet these requirements.
Consider the reported claim regarding an expectant mother having reached full term began having contractions at at home. On the way the local hospital she commenced experiencing unrelenting intense pain. Upon reaching the hospital she complained to the admitting nurse that she was having intense pain exclaiming that she believed there was a problem. The expectant mother was transferred to the Labor and Delivery unit but the nurse either did not understand or ignored the womans complaints and failed to call the physician, who had not yet arrived at the hospital, to inform him.
Instead the nurse acted like this was a normal pregnancy. Valuable time passed before she even began checking the fetal heart rate. As soon as she at last did determine that the unborn child was suffering from fetal distress. At last the nurse did call the obstetrician, who still was not in the hospital, by telephone. Another obstetrician on the unit took charge and carried out an emergency C-section. The intense pain had been caused by a placental abruption. The placental abruption cased the unborn baby to suffer from a lack of oxygen resulting in significant brain injury. The infant will be permanently disabled and has to have 24/7 care. The law firm that represented the family documented that the case settled for from the hospital for the nursing not spotting that the pregnant woman had experienced a placental abruption.
In this claim the patient in fact flagged the nurse of her impression that something had gone wrong with the pregnancy. At this point in the pregnancy intense continual abdominal pain can be the result of a placental abruption.
It is not known why the nurse failed to connect these. Whether she dismissed the patients complaints, did not hear them, did not have the appropriate knowledge, training or experience to properly understand the situation, or discounted her complaints since a placental abruption is commonly (though not every time) associated with visible vaginal bleeding, she overlooked indications of a serious complication.
The result, unfortunately, was a severe injury to the unborn baby producing a permanent disability. As a result of the injury caused by the nurses error the law firm that represented the family documented that it managed to achieve a settlement designed to be enough so that the baby has necessary care for life.
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