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Shoulder Weakness from Kentucky Brachial Plexus Birth Injuries
Can Improper Prenatal Monitoring Lead to a Birth Injury in Kentucky?
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Louisville Auto Accident Leaves Teen Bicyclist Injured
Kentucky Car Accidents and Drowsy Driving
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Dangerous and Defective Products
Kentucky Defective Products Attorney on Dangerous Drugs in Covington
Zimmer NexGen knee replacement lawsuits
Darvocet pulled for link to heart damage by the FDA
Drugs for Osteoporosis Prescribed Unecessarily?
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Kimberly Clark subsidiary I-Flow sues doctor for using its pain pump product
Daubert Motion in Pain Pump Case Found for Plaintiff
Shoulder Pain Pump Manufacturer I-Flow Settles Lawsuits
Shoulder Pain Pump Manufacturers Have Been Silent
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After a Defective Fentanyl Pain Patch Causes Injuries or Death of a Loved One
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Birth Injury
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Birth Delays Linked to Kentucky Birth Injuries
Doctors Failing to Recognize Bacteria Can Cause a Kentucky Birth Injury
Kentucky Neonatal E. Coli Infections Could be Result of Medical Malpractice
Affects of Brachial Plexus Birth Palsy in Northern Kentucky Infants
Doctor Prescribed Medications for Expectant Mothers Could Cause a Kentucky Birth Injury
When you find out that your infant has been diagnosed with a birth injury in Kentucky, you may be devastated and consumed with many thoughts causing you sleepless nights, stress, and worry.What makes the matter worse is finding out that your baby's birth injury was caused by a doctor's negligence. Knowing this injury could have been avoided may make you angry, and rightfully so.
When your infant is diagnosed with Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension in Newborns (PPHN), you may have a case for medical malpractice. This life-threatening birth injury constricts a newborn's arteries in the lungs, which limits the amount of oxygen flowing into the bloodstream.
What Causes PPHN?
PPHN can occur in newborns for various reasons, such as high blood pressure, gestational diabetes, and existing diabetes in the expectant mother. However, PPHN is also caused from expectant mothers taking certain medications during pregnancy, such as anti-depressant medications.
Sometimes these medications are taken with the expectant mother's full knowledge of the risks, but other times medications may be prescribed to them without their knowledge of side effects that could cause birth injuries to their newborn.
If a doctor knowingly prescribed certain medications to expectant mothers that led to an infant being diagnosed with a Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension birth injury in Kentucky, they should be held accountable for their actions.
Although this birth injury is rare, it does occur and can be helped if proper treatment is administered to infants immediately following birth.
How We Can Help You
If you believe that PPHN occurred in your newborn due to medications you took while you were pregnant on your doctor's orders, then you may have a legal claim against the negligent doctor.
For more information on this type of Kentucky birth injury and to find out if you have rights to recovery, please call a skilled birth injury attorney in Northern Kentucky at the law office of Schachter, Hendy & Johnson. We will provide you with a free, no-obligation legal consultation to answer your questions and to give you more information about your rights. To reach our office, call (859) 578-4444 or (888) 606-5297 to schedule your appointment today.
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Schachter, Hendy & Johnson, Attorneys At Law
909 Wrights Summit Parkway
Suite 210
Fort Wright, KY 41011
Phone: (859) 578-4444
Fax: (859) 578-4440
Toll Free: (888) 606-5297
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Schachter, Hendy & Johnson, Attorneys At Law
909 Wrights Summit Parkway
Suite 210
Fort Wright, KY 41011
Phone: (859) 578-4444
Fax: (859) 578-4440
Toll Free: (888) 606-5297
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