4.5 Million Settlement In Lawsuit Alleging Nurse Overlooked Symptoms Of Placental Abruption

4.5 Million Settlement In Lawsuit Alleging Nurse Overlooked Symptoms Of Placental Abruption

It is typical for expectant mothers to place themselves and their unborn child in the care of a doctor who will get them through labor and delivery. It might oftentimes take time after the patient is admitted to the hospital until the child is born. During somepart of this time physicians often depend on the nurses and staff to monitor the expectant mother's situation and to let them know about of any problems that may arise.

The doctor continues to be accountable for supervising the nurses and staff. Also, the nurses and staff are accountable for having the knowledge, training and experience to identify signs of issues and for notifying the physician when they do arise. However, nurses and staff on occasion fail to meet these demands.

Look at the reported case alleging that a pregnant woman at full term commenced experiencing contractions while at home and while heading to the local hospital the woman also started experiencing unrelenting extreme pain. When she arrived at the hospital she told the admitting nurse that she was experiencing severe pain and that she thought something was wrong. Unfortunately the nurse either failed to register or ignored her complaints and failed to call the doctor, who had not arrived at the hospital, to inform him.

Rather the nurse acted like this was a standard pregnancy. Valuable time passed until she even commenced checking the fetal heart rate. When she at last did figure out that the unborn child was experiencing fetal distress. Now she did call the obstetrician, who still had not come to the hospital, by telephone. A second doctor on the unit took charge and carried out an emergency C-section.

The intense pain had been due to a placental abruption. The placental abruption cased the unborn child to experience a reduced supply of oxygen leading to severe brain injury. The infant is permanently disabled and needs full time care. The law firm that represented the family published that the case settled for from the hospital for the nursing staff's failure to recognize that the pregnant woman had suffered a placental abruption.

In this lawsuit the patient in fact alerted the nurse of her impression that there was a problem with the pregnancy. At this stage in the pregnancy extreme persistent abdominal pain can be the result of a placental abruption.

It is not clear why the nurse did not put these together. Whether she dismissed the patient's complaints, failed to hear them, did not have the appropriate knowledge, training or experience to correctly understand the situation, or discounted the patient's complaints on the grounds that a placental abruption is commonly (though not always) associated with visible vaginal bleeding, she missed signs of a dangerous complication.

The result, unfortunately, was a severe injury to the unborn baby producing a lifelong disability. Due to the injury caused by the nurse's error the law firm that handled this matter reported that it managed to achieve a settlement intented to ensure that the child has appropriate care for life.

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