These medical mistakes should never happen during labor and delivery
Communication issues between nurses and doctors top the list of problems causing these sentinel/never events
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Closed claims study shows most common fetal distress mistakes and injuries
Nurses and doctors must jump into action when there's a sign of fetal distress
Spina bifida prenatal testing, delivery, and medical malpractice
Spina bifida is detectable by ultrasound and prenatal testing
What every expecting parent should know about electronic fetal monitoring
Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) provides lots of information that can be used to decide if an emergency delivery is needed
Newborn strokes, cerebral palsy, and medical malpractice
Strokes at or around the time birth can cause brain damage or cerebral palsy
Therapeutic hypothermia cooling therapy may hide newborn brain injuries
This standard treatment can reduce the degree of brain damage caused that low oxygen causes in infants, but can also obscure permanent injuries
What do newborn Apgar scores mean when it comes to cerebral palsy and brain or birth injury?
Apgar scores are assessed and documented for newborns at 1-minute and 5-minutes after birth
What you should know about meconium, meconium aspiration syndrome & medical malpractice
Meconium can be a sign of fetal distress if it passes birth or during delivery
New Texas law restores common sense, will benefit some medical medical malpractice victims
Law reduces the circumstances when the burdensome "willful and wanton negligence" standard applies
Failure to diagnose and control childbirth-related bleeding can cause Sheehan's syndrome
Bleeding-related pregnancy complications are on the rise in Texas and the United States as a whole