You MAY have a medical malpractice case if:
_ You or a loved one were significantly injured from a surgical error or complication of surgery
_ You or a loved one were significantly injured from improper medical care or treatment
_ You or a loved one were diagnosed with breast, ovarian, prostate or other cancer after a year [...]
Source: ACOG (The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) July 2009
ACOG has now published a revised version of it’s guidelines for Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) monitoring. In practice Bulletin #106, ACOG has sought to improve consistency of common terms and to reduce variability (bad word choice) in FHR interpretation.
FHR was used in less than [...]
A little too close to home here, but results of a recent British cohort study suggest that infants who required resuscitation are at increased risk for low IQ scores by 8 years of age.
Significantly, the results were said to be similar for those infants with and without encephalopathy. The theory advanced to explain this is [...]