Today’s post will cover your placenta and baby’s HIE brain injury, in the context of how placenta’s can be used as defenses when families allege that medical malpractice was the cause of the brain injury. This is an important topic for families who are looking to understand if they file a medical malpractice case how will the doctors and hospital attempt to “defend” the matter.
In regarding to medical malpractice claims, especially birth injury cases, rarely will cases be “slam dunks.” As a result, it is imperative for families to have an idea as to how a birth injury lawyer assess these types of cases.
Your Placenta And Baby’s HIE Brain Injury
Before getting into the medical legal issues, the placenta forms and develops in the womb/uterus during pregnancy. The role of the placenta to provide the baby with oxygen and other nutrients. One can see based on the previous two sentences why the defense will focus on the placenta in a birth injury case.
The medical expert who will analyze and review any protentional issues with the placenta is a placental pathologist. This expert will view the placenta and create a report(s). Based on what is in the report(s), defenses might be created.
From a defense standpoint, if there are problems with the placenta, the defense will use those problems to attack causation. What they will use the placenta report to do is attack the element of causation. The following are ways in which the placenta can impact a case:
- Inflammation and Infection
- Placental Insufficiency
- Abruption or Hemorrhage
- Chronic Conditions
Because HIE is a reduction or cut-off of oxygenated blood which can lead to a brain injury, all the bullet points recently mentioned will be argued as why there was a cut-off or reduction of oxygenated blood.
To speak with me further regarding how your baby suffered an HIE brain injury at birth, reach out to me at my information below. It does not cost you any money to speak with me initially about your baby’s story.
Marcus B. Boston, Esq.
9701 Apollo Dr. Suite 100
Largo, Maryland 20774
301-850-4832
1-833-4 BABY HELP
