Massachusetts Personal Injury Library
Cerebral Palsy and Medical Errors
The Boston birth injury attorney Thomas Kiley has a special interest in cases involving Cerebral Palsy, a condition commonly caused by oxygen deprivation or head trauma during birth.
What is Cerebral Palsy?
Cerebral palsy is a term that refers to a group of disorders typically related to an individual’s inability to control motor function.
Types of Cerebral Palsy
Cerebral palsy is categorized into four types:
- spastic cerebral palsy,
- athetoid or dyskinetic cerebral palsy,
- ataxic cerebral palsy, or
- mixed forms of cerebral palsy.
Causes for Cerebral Palsy
Some common medical errors that can lead to cerebral palsy include:
- The failure to recognize and treat infant seizures
- Failure to perform a C-Section when a fetus is in distress
- Excessive use of a vacuum extractor
- Failure to detect a prolapsed umbilical cord
- Improper use of delivery forceps
- Improper response to precarious vital signs
- Failure to recognize fetal distress
- Failure to diagnose and treat jaundice or meningitis
- Delayed delivery
- Failure to recognize pregnancy-induced hypertension
When to Contact a Personal Injury Attorney
The medical care for both children and adults diagnosed with cerebral palsy can be financially and emotionally demanding. Cerebral palsy can require a lifetime of medical care to deal with the physical disorders as well as psychiatrists, speech pathologists, occupational and physical therapists. The financial burden of these ongoing expenses can contribute to debilitating life circumstances.
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