Flint, Owosso and Burton, Michigan Birth Injury Attorneys Helping Children for Almost 3 Decades
Award-Winning Michigan Birth Injury Lawyers and Cerebral Palsy Attorneys | Flint, Owosso and Burton, Michigan Birth Injury Attorneys
The city of Flint, Michigan has four very large medical centers: Hurley Medical Center, McLaren Regional Medical Center, St. Joseph’s Hospital, and Flint Osteopathic
Hospital. These hospitals have become part of the Genesys Health System, which is comprised of Genesys East Flint Campus and Genesys West Flint Campus, with Genesys Regional Medical Center at the Health Park located in Grand Blanc Township.
Given its expansive medical system, it is no wonder that Flint has some amazing institutions that provide comprehensive treatments and therapies for children with cerebral palsy. The Children’s Rehabilitation Center at Hurley Medical Center has many specialized programs to help kids with cerebral palsy, including neuromuscular electrical stimulation and partial weight-bearing treadmill training. All programs are individualized and age-specific, and they incorporate classes to help the children’s families understand and be able to work with conditions associated with cerebral palsy.
If you are a parent of a child with cerebral palsy in the Flint area, then you’re already aware of the many difficulties encountered on a day to day basis with this condition. You know how ordinary activities can be difficult and sometimes even impossible. And the costs associated with hospital visits, therapy, adaptive technology and other treatments can total many thousands of dollars each year.
Flint, Owosso and Burton, Michigan Birth Injury Attorneys Discuss Causes of Birth Injuries
Something that many parents don’t know, though, is that a lot of cases of cerebral palsy and other birth injuries could have been avoided. Often, CP and birth injuries are a result of errors by doctors, nurses or other medical professionals during pregnancy, labor or delivery. Medical errors can range from a failure to diagnose and treat maternal infection, a failure to adequately monitor a baby during labor, incorrect use of delivery instruments such as forceps or vacuum extractors, or even a failure to perform a timely c-section. Often, birth injuries occur when medical professionals mishandle complications that occur during labor and delivery.
Complications that, if mishandled, can cause birth injuries include the following:
- Postmaturity syndrome
- Placenta previa
- Umbilical cord problems, such as a nuchal cord or umbilical cord prolapse
- Failure to quickly deliver a baby when fetal distress is evident on the fetal heart rate monitor (delayed emergency C-section)
- Oligohydramnios (low amniotic fluid)
- Anesthesia mistakes, which can cause blood pressure problems in the mother, including a hypotensive crisis
- Premature rupture of the membranes (PROM) / premature birth
- Prolonged and arrested labor
- Ruptured uterus (womb)
- Placental abruption
- Fetal stroke
- Preeclampsia / eclampsia
- Intracranial hemorrhages (brain bleeds), which can be caused by a traumatic delivery. Forceps and vacuum extractors can cause brain bleeds. Sometimes intense contractions (hyperstimulation) caused by labor induction drugs (Pitocin and Cytotec) can cause head trauma. Mismanagement of cephalopelvic disproportion (CPD), abnormal presentations (face or breech presentation), and shoulder dystocia also put a child at risk of having a brain bleed.
- Hyperstimulation caused by Pitocin and Cytotec can also cause oxygen deprivation that gets progressively worse.
- Improper management of the baby’s respiratory status after birth. This includes failure to properly manage apnea (periods of breathing cessation), failure to properly manage a baby on a breathing machine (which can cause overventilation injuries, such as hypocarbia and a hole or holes in the lungs), and failure to give proper amounts of surfactant, which helps with lung maturity and lung compliance in premature lungs.
- Improper management of anemia (low red blood cell count), which can cause the baby to lack the capacity to carry oxygen to the cells and tissues in the body,
including brain cells. - Improperly treated neonatal hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
- Improperly treated high bilirubin levels (jaundice) that cause a form of brain damage called kernicterus.
- Brain infection such as meningitis, which can be caused by infections in the mother that travel to the baby at birth. These maternal infections include the following: Group B Strep (GBS), herpes simplex virus (HSV), urinary tract infection (UTI), bacterial vaginosis (BV) and chorioamnionitis.
Unfortunately, mistakes can be made by even the most highly skilled physicians at the best hospitals. So whether your child was born at Hurley, McClaren, Genesys, Memorial Healthcare or another birthing facility, you deserve to know exactly what happened and if negligence played a role in your child’s cerebral palsy.
Flint, Owosso and Burton, Michigan Birth Injury Attorneys Helping Children for Almost 3 Decades
The nationally recognized Flint, Owosso and Burton, Michigan birth injury attorneys at Reiter & Walsh ABC Law Centers have been helping children with birth injuries throughout the nation for over two decades. Jesse Reiter, the firm’s co-founder, has been focusing on birth injury cases his entire 28+ year career. Jesse helps children all over the country, and when he takes a case, he spends a lot of time getting to know the child and family he is helping so he can fully understand the child’s needs. Jesse has won many awards for his advocacy of children, and he is currently recognized as being one of the best medical malpractice lawyers in America by U.S. News and World Report 2015, as well as one of the 10 Best Attorneys in Michigan by Super Lawyers magazine.
Jesse and his team are passionate about helping children obtain all the support, therapy and treatment they need so they have a good quality of life and a secure future. Jesse and his team of Flint, Owosso and Burton, Michigan birth injury attorneys will carefully review all medical records to determine if negligence occurred. Once Jesse sees medical malpractice, he aggressively fights to obtain compensation for lifelong care and support of the child, which typically includes treatment, medical devices, housing and education.
Birth injury law is a difficult area of law to pursue due to the complex nature of the medical records. The nationally recognized Flint, Owosso and Burton, Michigan birth injury attorneys at Reiter & Walsh ABC Law Centers have decades of experience with cerebral palsy cases, and have won numerous awards for their advocacy of children. To find out if you have a case, contact our firm to speak with an experienced attorney. We handle cases in Michigan, Ohio, Washington, D.C. and throughout the nation. We have numerous multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements that attest to our success, and no fees are ever paid to our firm until we win your case. Email or call our Flint, Owosso and Burton, Michigan birth injury attorneys at 888-419-2229.
