Do you have a medical malpractice case in PA or NJ?

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 [...]

Fetal Heart Monitoring Update

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 [...]

From across the Pond -IQ and infant resuscitation

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 [...]