Birth Injuries Attorney in Baltimore, Maryland
Types of Birth Injuries
Types of Birth Injuries
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types of injuries that
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can occur in birth
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in in the birthing process would be one
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of the most severe would be a hypoxic
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ischemic encephalopathy or what we call
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as hie
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and that can occur if during delivery
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the child was deprived of oxygen or
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blood
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and it causes a major brain injury and
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that can happen
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if for example the fetal monitoring
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strips were showing worry some signs
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and the child should have been delivered
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by emergency c-section and that did not
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occur
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and as a result blood flow
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was stifled and did not get to the to
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the brain
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and so the child has a massive brain
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injury i’ve also seen
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cases where the brain injury has
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occurred as a result of
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bleeding they went in to do an
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artificial rupture of membranes
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and when they did so something an
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emergency occurred
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bleeding massive bleeding happened after
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the rupture
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and they did not get the child to
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emergency c-section
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quickly enough and as a result the child
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lost massive amounts of blood
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and therefore sustained a major brain
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injury less severe but still worrying
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some
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is a child can sustain like a brachial
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plexus injury
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and that’s so during the delivery
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through
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a vaginal delivery the physician
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may have pulled on the neck and
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stretched the nerves
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that span between the neck and the
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shoulder and that’s the brachial plexus
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and as a result the child has a
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neurological injury to their arm
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and so they lose the appropriate
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functioning of their arm
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so those are some of the three types of
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injuries we typically see in birth
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injury cases
Baltimore, MD personal injury lawyer Ace McBride talks about the types of birth injury cases he handles. He notes that the types of injuries that can occur during the birthing process vary in severity. One of the most serious is hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, or HIE, which happens when a baby is deprived of oxygen or blood during delivery, resulting in major brain injury. This can occur if fetal monitoring shows concerning signs and an emergency C-section is indicated but not performed, leading to insufficient blood flow to the brain.
He has also seen brain injuries caused by severe bleeding. For example, during an artificial rupture of membranes, an unexpected complication can lead to massive bleeding, and if the child is not delivered by emergency C-section quickly enough, the resulting blood loss can cause a major brain injury.
Less severe but still significant injuries include brachial plexus injuries. During vaginal delivery, if a physician pulls on the baby’s neck, the nerves connecting the neck and shoulder—the brachial plexus—can be stretched, causing neurological injury to the arm and loss of proper function.
These are among the most common types of injuries he encounters in birth injury cases.
