Los Angeles Oxygen Deficiency / Hypoxia Attorneys

Severe Birth Injuries Can Result From Oxygen Deficiency or Hypoxia

It is well recognized that severe birth injuries may result if a newborn baby fails to receive adequate oxygen - where the amount of oxygen received is deficient, otherwise known as Hypoxia.  Our Lawyers have seen many instances where negligence caregivers have caused the newborn child to receive inadequate amounts of oxygen, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), which has resulted in Neonatal Encephalopathy as well as cerebral palsy birth injuries.  The most and identifiable symptoms that your newborn child may be suffering from oxygen deficiency / hypoxia is there may be abnormal reflexes, breathing problems, and feeding problems.

Our Los Angeles Oxygen Deficiency / Hypoxia Lawyers have worked with many families whose children who have suffered all types of birth injuries.  Our Los Angeles Attorneys have also seen the impact and long-term effects oxygen deficiency, hypoxia and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy has on both the child as well as their family.

What Birth Injuries Can Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy / Oxygen Deficiency / Hypoxia Cause in a Newborn Child?

After your newborn child has failed to receive adequate oxygen, brain damage has most certainly occurred.  This birth injury brain damage is most likely very serious as well as permanent.  Some of these birth injuries may be so serious or critical that they may result in infant fatalities or infant death.  In a recent study on the effects of Oxygen Deficiency / Hypoxia, it was determined that upwards of twenty-percent (20%) of all newborns who have suffered a Hypoxia Birth Injury will die within the first three (3) months.

Of the remaining eighty-percent (80%) of infants who survived this newborn period, approximately twenty-five percent (25%) of the newborn infants will have permanent injuries or problems.  These serious medical conditions may include epilepsy, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, and mental retardation.  While there are many reasons which could cause the newborn child to receive inadequate oxygen, we have determined that some of the issues which may cause this birth injury include Maternal Hypotension, Umbilical Cord Complications, and Uterine Rupture.

Irrespective of the cause of your child's birth injuries for oxygen deficiency, our Los Angeles Oxygen Deficiency Lawyers would like to discuss with you the events which led up to these birth injuries.  Additionally, it was the responsibility of your healthcare medical professional who delivered your child to prevent these birth injuries from occurring. 

Contact our Los Angeles Oxygen Deficiency / Hypoxia Lawyers

If your newborn infant or child was seriously injured or died as a direct result of the negligence or medical malpractice of your medical professionals who delivered your baby in Los Angeles, please contact our Los Angeles Birth Injury Attorneys to discuss the events of your child's injuries.  We have helped many families like yours, and we are ready to fight for your child's and your families rights in receiving compensation.  And while monetary compensation will not bring back your child, it is important that the people and entities responsible for causing your infant's death pay for the wrongs they committed. 

Call our Los Angeles Birth Injury Law Firm today for a free confidential consultation at (800) 715-4489.