What are Birth Injuries?
What can you do if your Child has suffered a Birth Injury? Injuries to an infant during the birth process are categorized as birth trauma or birth injury. Unacceptable obstetric treatment during a birth or poor diagnosis of a baby’s medical condition often lead to catastrophic injuries. While these injuries can be as a consequence of several causes, many are due to preventable errors and/or medical negligence on the part of obstetric doctors or midwives. We have represented many clients who have suffered due to medical malpractice. Our birth injury medical negligence experience covers a range of cases. These include:
Problems not detected during pregnancy.
Failure to detect serious abnormalities pre birth.
Negligently handled births.
Errors during ante-natal care.
Injury or death due to medical instruments, anesthetics or inadequate suturing.
What can you do if your Child has suffered a Birth Injury?
Frequent birth injuries include fractured bones, brain injury and nerve damage. If there are medical complications during labour and delivery this can lead to a wide variety of problems. Induced or operative delivery are more likely to cause birth injuries than a natural birth. If you feel your child has suffered a birth injury due to medical negligence please phone us at 01 8744 422 or fill in our online inquiry form and a client care executive will be in contact with you. All our client care executives are non-lawyers with a considerable track record of helping people through the many difficult issues that arise during the process of a medical negligence claim. They will also organise an appointment with an experienced medical negligence solicitor.
Useful Links.
- The Cochrane Collaboration.
- An Bord Altranais, Nursing Board.
- Health Service Executive.
- Miscarraige Association of Ireland.
- Feileacain (Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Association of Ireland, SANDAI).
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists U.K.
- Midwives Information and Resource Service U.K.
- Department of Health and Children.