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What Are “Serious Games,” and How Could They Improve Neonatal Resuscitation?

Medical professionals who care for newborns must know a great deal about managing neonatal breathing complications. They should be skilled at providing resuscitation, intubation, and other forms of respiratory assistance to infants that require it. Mismanagement of neonatal breathing complications can result in a variety of serious birth injuries, such as bronchopulmonary dysplasia, pneumothorax, hypocarbia,…

Misuse of Pitocin & Cytotec and Delayed Resuscitation cause Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE), Intellectual Disabilities & Cerebral Palsy in a Baby.

A mother whose baby went past the due date was given Cytotec to induce labor. When the mother’s labor stopped, she was given Pitocin. The medical team did not continuously monitor the baby’s heart rate with the fetal heart monitor; the monitor was taken off at various times during delivery. At birth, which was 13…

Pregnant woman put in solitary confinement instead of hospital when in labor and bleeding profusely, causing baby to be born lifeless with cord wrapped around her neck.

Michigan birth injury lawyer discusses the tragic case of a woman in prison whose baby received no medical attention when she was had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck and was being deprived of oxygen. At birth, the baby girl was lifeless and the unlicensed nurse on staff did not perform CPR.