This is the third in a series of three articles about how medical experts determine when a newborn brain injury occurred. The first article in this series dealt with neuroimaging. The second discussed cord blood gas analysis. A newborn with signs of neurologic injury can suffer that injury any time during pregnancy, during labour and […]
Archives for August 2017
A Letter to Moms of Children with Cerebral Palsy
If you are a mom, you have likely experienced “mom guilt” at one point or another. As a working mother, I have had my fair share. The more I speak with other mothers, the more I realize that it is an almost universal feeling. It is rarely rational and logical, but that feeling remains, all […]
WHAT’S A LOW APGAR SCORE (and why is it important to my baby)?
When a baby is born, one of the first things that medical professionals will do is perform an assessment known as the APGAR test. This test, which is performed at one, five and ten minutes of life, is a quick way to determine the baby’s health and if they are in need of resuscitation. A […]
Recognizing When A Child Brain Injury Is Caused
This is the second in a series of three articles about how medical experts determine when a newborn brain injury occurred. The first article explains how birth injury lawyers use medical imaging to determine the timing of a brain injury. The third will discuss fetal heart rate changes. A newborn with signs of neurologic injury […]
Proving causation on the basis of an adverse inference: Benhaim v. St-Germain
In the realm of birth injury lawsuits, one of the most important, and at times, most difficult issues for a plaintiff to establish is the legal element known as causation. In order to succeed with a birth injury claim, not only must the plaintiff prove that the doctors or nurses fell below the standard of […]
NEUROIMAGING: What is it and how can it help my baby’s birth injury lawsuit?
One of the most important tools for assessing how and when a brain injury occurred is through brain imaging. Imaging can be used to determine timing (when the brain injury happened) and causation (how the injury happened). There are three types of brain imaging: 1) Ultrasound An ultrasound is quick, readily available and risk free. […]
HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOUR BABY WAS INJURED? BRAIN IMAGING
This is the first in a series of three articles about how medical experts determine when a newborn brain injury occurred. This article will explain how birth injury lawyers use medical imaging to determine the timing of a brain injury. The second article in this series will deal with umbilical cord blood gas analysis. The […]
