Birth Injuries
3 Symptoms of Brain Damage in Children – Insights from a New Orleans Birth Injury Lawyer
On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Birth Injuries on Monday, March 14, 2016. Brain damage is devastating at any age, but it is particularly traumatic when infants face permanent cognitive disabilities. According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, traumatic brain injuries are the leading causes of death and lifelong disabilities in infants and young childre n. TBIs can result from blunt force trauma to the head, lack of oxygen to the brain, compression in the birth canal and other factors. Although brain injuries can stem from natural complications, some are the direct results of medical malpractice. If you suspect that your child suffered brain damage due to a health-care…
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New Orleans Medical Malpractice Lawyer Discusses 4 Brain Injuries during Childbirth
On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Birth Injuries on Wednesday, February 17, 2016. No parent should have to go through the trauma of a serious childbirth injury. Unfortunately, some forms of traumatic brain injuries are particularly common among infants – and medical malpractice contributes to many of them. According to the Brain Injury Association of America, children from birth to age 4 are more at risk of suffering a TBI than any other age group in the United States. Each year, traumatic brain injuries in young children cause 2,685 deaths, 37,000 hospitalizations and more than 400,000 emergency room visits. If you or your child was the victim of…
Read MoreMedical center pays $9 million to settle birth injury claim
On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Birth Injuries on Wednesday, February 17, 2016. Cerebral palsy is caused by a brain injury that occurs before, during or immediately after birth. The disease sometimes results when there has been a birth injury caused by medical malpractice. If the delivery procedure in a Louisiana hospital or elsewhere is not properly monitored and if recognizable dangers are ignored, a deprivation of oxygen to the brain can occur during childbirth. The lack of oxygen to the brain can cause mild to severe brain damage, depending on the duration of the problem. In a medical malpractice case where cerebral palsy is related to oxygen deprivation to…
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