{"id":1468,"date":"2021-08-12T13:05:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/?post_type=sub-practice-areas&#038;p=1468"},"modified":"2021-11-12T17:08:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T17:08:03","slug":"birth-injury","status":"publish","type":"sub-practice-areas","link":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/birth-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth Injury Case Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The following cases are actual cases which have been handled by our attorneys.&nbsp; These case studies are listed to compare facts and medical standards with care you or someone you know may have received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Child Loses Toes Due to Thermal Burn Injury at Birth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Premature twin was injured when the NICU nurse applied a rubber glove filled with scalding hot water to her groin area in an attempt to warm the newborn.&nbsp; Because the baby was premature, its skin was almost paper thin and the glove caused severe thermal burns to the child\u2019s inner thigh and down to the toes.&nbsp; Three toes, including the great toe had to be amputated as a result of the burn.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full-term baby dies from unrecognized cord accident-Birth Injuries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After undergoing many in-vitro attempts at pregnancy, a couple conceived and the child was carried to term.&nbsp; Despite physician instructions to keep the patient on a fetal heart monitor, nurses permitted the laboring mother to remove the apparatus for approximately 45 minutes after a day of weak contractions.&nbsp; The fetal heart monitor strip was never reassuring, throughout the day.&nbsp; When the monitor was re-attached, the baby\u2019s heart tones were absent to nearly absent, and despite an emergency caesarean section, the baby was born dead.&nbsp; Settlement of $380,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diabetic Mother Loses Baby Because Of Untreated Ketoacidosis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mother with diabetes and high risk pregnancy presents to the hospital with history of nausea and vomiting.&nbsp; Physician fails to order blood sugar checks or to place mother on sliding scale insulin.&nbsp; Does not come to the hospital to see his patient.&nbsp; Nurse calls physician several times to report problems with the fetal heart tones.&nbsp; Nurse also fails to recognize obvious fetal distress.&nbsp; Physician finally comes to hospital and orders transfer of patient to a higher level care facility 3 hours away.&nbsp; Physician does not order insulin or sugar checks during transport.&nbsp; When mother arrives, blood sugar is over 800 and baby expires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1470,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"categories":[54],"class_list":["post-1468","sub-practice-areas","type-sub-practice-areas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birth-injury"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub-practice-areas\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub-practice-areas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sub-practice-areas"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}