What Is Your Experience With Handling Birth Injury Cases?

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well as somebody who was formerly
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trained in Pediatrics and practice
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medicine for a number of years I used to
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Moonlight and neonatal intensive care
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units for years I’m very familiar with
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uh uh deliveries attended thousands of
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deliveries as a pediatrician as well as
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the care of the newborn in the first
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hours of life and so when you’re talking
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about birth injuries there’s a lot of
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different areas that that can Encompass
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the can be birth injuries that occur
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before the child is born in utero there
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can be various problems that now can be
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diagnosed and intervened earlier there
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can be injuries that occur during the
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process of birth the most common of
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which is thought of as anoxic brain
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injury where the baby doesn’t get enough
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oxygen in the first few minutes of life
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because of a complication or a birth
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injury such as a brachial plexus injury
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where uh the nerves get damaged in in
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the shoulder area of the of the baby
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causing an injury to the child’s arm
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which can be lifelong and then there’s
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of course injuries that occur after
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birth a child can come out have H good
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apgar scores have normal oxygenation and
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things like a Paton ductus arteriosis or
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other uh things that can occur during
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the first hours and days of life don’t
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get timely diagnosed and managed so
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birth injuries really in my mind uh
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covers a very large range of areas and
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you really need an
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experienced um expert in in that field