Birth Injury Lawyers - Birth Trauma Attorneys

Serving New Jersey and the Philadelphia metropolitan area

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The joy of having a child can quickly be tainted with tragedy when preventable birth injury or birth trauma occurs. A child can become permanently disabled or die from birth injuries. The physical, emotional, and financial hardships endured by the parents, siblings, grandparents, and other loved ones of a birth injured child are overwhelming and often devastating. Immediate detection and treatment can greatly increase your child's chance of survival and of living a normal, healthy life. Even so, many children who survive birth injuries will require life-long care.

Negligence is at the heart of preventable birth injury. Common causes of birth injury and birth trauma include:

• Miscalculation of the size of the fetus
• Pre or post mature delivery due to improper dating
• Infections and medical problems in the mother
• Infections and medical problems in the fetus
• Rh incompatibility
• Administration of improper medications during pregnancy and/or delivery
• Failure to monitor fetus and respond to fetal distress
• Abnormal presentation, including shoulder dystocia
• Failure to perform a timely c-section
• Improper use of delivery instruments
• Failure to give oxygen to newborns when needed

Types of birth injury
Birth injuries can be injury to the brain, injuries to the body, or both. The consequences range from mild to severe or even deadly, and may be temporary or permanent. Common preventable birth injuries include:

• Brain injury (including Cerebral palsy)
• Brachial plexus injuries (including Klumpke's Palsy /Erb's palsy)
• Untreated jaundice
• Seizures
• Spasticity
• Paralysis
• Meconium aspiration
• Excessive bleeding
• Infections
• Bleeding beneath the scalp
• Bleeding inside the skull
• Bruising from forceps
• Skull fractures
• Clavicle fractures
• Cranial nerve trauma
• Spinal cord damage
• Facial paralysis
• Skin irritation
• Soft tissue injuries
• Stillbirth

Birth injuries require immediate attention
If you suspect that your child may have suffered a birth injury or birth trauma, get medical attention for your child right away. With proper and timely treatment many children can survive and the damage my even be reversed. Many children will require a lifetime of expensive medical care. Most will need physical therapy, and some will have to be institutionalized for life.

Your child's best hope is in getting the best, most advanced treatment available and those treatments are expensive. If your child has suffered a preventable birth injury, getting the compensation that you deserve may be your only means of providing the care your child needs and can mean the difference between recovery and permanent disability.

New Jersey medical malpractice lawyer Michael L. Weiss, Esq. has tried several birth injury lawsuits to a jury and has successfully recovered millions of dollars on behalf of medical malpractice victims and their families. If your child has suffered a birth injury or birth trauma in New Jersey, please contact our New Jersey malpractice lawyers today.

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