Brain Damage and Medical Negligence: What You Need to Know

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It’s unfortunate that newborn babies sometimes experience some kind of brain damage at the time of their birth.
This puts the entire family in a state of trauma with a constant feeling of fear about the health and well-being of the infant.

However, it is vital to be familiar with fundamentally two underlying kinds of brain injuries: one is the physical brain trauma injury, in a case of intense hemorrhage; second, a brain injury that arises from lack of oxygen, known as “perinatal asphyxia” or “hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy”.

 

Is ‘Brain Hemorrhage’ a Cause of Medical Negligence?

It is the duty of parents and other family members to closely analyze all medical facts to conclude if a forceful vaginal delivery took place or whether there was a shortness of oxygen at the time of childbirth which could have led to brain damage.

Moreover, they must also identify if the damage was an outcome medical negligence on the obstetrician’s end, the existing hospital staff or poorly operating equipment present in the labor room.

Kinds of Brain Hemorrhages at Birth

In order to ascertain if your child encountered a medical malpractice at birth, it is first important to determine the kind of brain hemorrhage that has caused injury.

Stated below are three kinds of infant brain hemorrhages and what they entail:

Subdural Hemorrhages

This is a kind of hemorrhage that takes place amid the outer and inner layers of the brain’s shield.  The good news is that this type of hemorrhage has become rare, thanks to the advanced techniques utilized at the time of delivery.

Subdural hemorrhage can exert strain on the brain’s surface. As a result, infants with subdural hemorrhages may generate seizures or elevated levels of bilirubin in the bloodstream.

Subarachnoid Hemorrhages

Subarachnoid is another kind of brain hemorrhage that transpires underneath deepest of the dual membranes covering the brain.

Also recognized as the most widespread form of intracranial hemorrhage, it frequently occurs in full-term newborn babies.

Children suffering from this brain damage occasionally suffer from seizures, that too for just a few days of their birth, but they manage to thrive in most cases.

Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage

This kind of a hemorrhage bleeds all the way to the brain tissues. Intraparenchymal hemorrhage typically takes place in premature newborns that tend to have critically immature brains and are characteristically not an outcome of a birth injury.

If you or your loved one has a newborn baby that has suffered a brain damage at birth as a result of medical negligence, it is imperative to seek services of a medical malpractice attorney.

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