Baby Suffers Permanent Brain Injury Due to Lack of Oxygen

Written by Adam Peck Category: Birth Injury April 2nd, 2013 2 min read

A baby suffers permanent brain injury due to lack of oxygen and physician incompetence. A Los Angeles man has filed a lawsuit against a Los Angeles physician, alleging he acted negligently and caused his son to suffer permanent brain injury.

Mr. Bone said his son was born limp in 2012, showed signs that he needed medical attention and was taken by ambulance to Centinela Medical Center.

Bone said his wife Sarah decided on natural childbirth when she was pregnant with her son Fred.

According to the lawsuit, Bone said he notified the physician assistant on the evening of September 3 , 2012, that his wife’s Sarah’s contractions had begun and that she had started leaking amniotic fluid. the doctor and the doctors assistant and Fred Bone arrived at Bone’s home the following morning, Bone said.

On the advice and direction of the physician assistant , Sarah Bone said, she started pushing to deliver her baby on the afternoon of September 5 , 2012 and gave birth that night, eight hours later.

At the hospital, the Physician assistant gave doctors inaccurate information, including that Bone’s water broke just three hours before delivery and that she had been in labor for three to four hours, according to Peck.

Fred Bone said the physician assistant also told doctors that the infant went limp after he was born and that he was given oxygen. The baby was not given oxygen, Bone said.

Bone said the physician should have been taken to the hospital for an emergency cesarean section. Bone also said the physician did not know the baby was in respiratory distress because he did not use a fetal heart monitor during the delivery.

Bone said the child has permanent brain injury because of a lack of oxygen at birth.

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Written by Adam Peck

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Adam J. Peck, ESQ is a principal with Peck Law Group, APC. In 2008, Mr. Adam Peck received his Juris Doctorate from Whittier Law School where he graduated Cum Laude. His practice is primarily dedicated to representing Elders, Dependent Adults, along with their loved ones and family members, who have suffered horrific personal injuries.