$4.5 Million Awarded To Mother After The Loss Of Her Baby Because Of Delay In Medical Care

Many times, paramedics are the first to respond to medical emergencies

. Paramedics are licensed health care providers who owe a duty to meet the standard of care to those they respond to and treat. As the first on the scene we expect paramedics to have the knowledge, training, and experience to differentiate between problems are capable of being treated at the scene from the ones that require urgent transport to a hospital with the appropriate equipment and full medical staff. Below we examine a lawsuit in which paramedics responded to a woman who had experienced a placental abruption at nearly full term of her pregnancy. When the paramedics arrived at the house the expecting mother was in shock from abrupt blood loss resulting from by a placental abruption. The paramedics did not figure out the severity of the circumstance and took around eighteen minutes prior to transporting her to the hospital.

The total delay in the time it took the paramedics before they made the call to transport the pregnant woman to the hospital where the child was delivered was at least eighteen minutes. In the 18 minute delay before the expecting mother was transported to the hospital the baby was deprived of an appropriate supply of oxygen due to the loss of blood from the placental abruption.. The infant died the day after being delivered. The mothers blood loss was so severe that she required an additional surgery to stop the bleeding and later temporarily lost kidney function. The law firm that handled the legal claim named the paramedics in the lawsuit.

States have varying laws in situations concerning the demise of an infant. In the State where this case arose the legal requirements for a mother to pursue a claim for the emotional harm she experienced due to her newborns are as follow. First, that the mother suffered a physical injury. Second, that the injury was one that would normally not happen in a normal childbirth. And third, that the injury to the mother was caused by the same act of malpractice that resulted in the babys death. The mother went into a severe depression six months after her newborns death. The mother was treated with therapy and with medication. Even so, as of the report of the case the mother was still depressed and expected to need medication for the rest of her life. The mother met those requirements.

by: Joseph Hernandez

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