Pregnancy can be dangerous if you don’t have the right team on hand. Conditions like placental abruption can endanger both you and your child, increasing your risk for long-term injury and/or death. If you want to stay on top of this condition, you need to work with medical professionals who take your concerns about your health seriously.
Our birth injury lawyers can help you better get ahead of conditions like placental abruption. We can tell you everything you need to know about placental abruption and how to discuss it with medical professionals. If the teams you see ignore your concerns, we can alternatively work with you to bring evidence of medical negligence before a civil judge.
Understanding Placental Abruption
What is a placental abruption? It’s a condition that tends to occur twenty weeks into a person’s pregnancy. This condition sees the placenta, or the nutrients used to help a child develop, begin to pull away from a person’s uterus. Because the placental is rich in blood vessels, that rift can result in uterine and vaginal bleeding.
High blood pressure and smoking can increase a person’s likelihood of placental abruption. Parents contending with multiple pregnancies are also more likely to experience placental abruptions than parents with a single child. Sickle cell anemia, high blood pressure, and previous placental abruptions also increase a person’s chances of an internal separation.
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The Dangers of Placental Abruption
Placental abruptions endanger both a parent and a child during pregnancy. Parents can suffer from kidney damage, brain damage, and reduced blood flow. The parent may also become more vulnerable to blood clots. An impacted child may not develop appropriately in the womb and may even die in the uterus.
Diagnosing a Placental Abruption
You can experience symptoms of a placental abruption at any point from the third trimester of your pregnancy. Symptoms may even reveal themselves during labor. Signs of a placental abruption that families should watch for can include:
- Feeling faint or nauseous
- Unrelenting pain in the abdomen
- Back pain
- False labor pains
- Dark red bleeding from the vagina
If you notice that your child isn’t moving as much as they used to, that child may also not be getting the nutrients they need to fully develop. You should go to a hospital as soon as you can, in these cases, to get your child the treatment they need. Medical professionals should also help you contend with any pain and/or related symptoms that might compromise your health.
The Three Stages of Placental Abruption
When it comes to knowing everything you need to know about placental abruptions, it’s best to address the condition in stages. Placental abruptions tend to grow worse the longer you go without treatment.
At first, the pregnant party may experience mild contractions and a small amount of bleeding, similar to spotting. If you don’t address these concerns, however, the bleeding and the contractions can worsen.
Finally, severe placental abruptions can result in hidden bleeding and unceasing contractions. Pregnant parties may also suffer from low blood pressure. If you don’t receive appropriate medical treatment during this stage of placental abruption, your baby can suffer severe developmental injuries or die.
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Placental Abruption and Medical Malpractice
While it can be difficult to control whether or not placental abruption occurs, there are means through which medical professionals can monitor a pregnant individual’s health. Medical professionals who ignore signs of placental abruption that then result in a pregnant person and/or child’s injury can be held accountable for these oversights.
Anytime negligence plays a role in a person’s placental abruption, the injured party may have the right to pursue financial compensation through civil court. Specifically, our placental birth injury lawyers in your area can help you build a complaint against the institution that takes responsibility for its team members’ oversights.
Our birth injury lawyers can further break down your legal options when contending with traveling nurses, unresponsive insurance providers, and underwhelming settlement offers. If you believe your placental abruption resulted from professional negligence, you can schedule a legal consultation with our team.
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Your Rights as an Injured Party
Parents and children can both suffer severe injuries in the wake of placental abruption. So long as you can prove that those injuries resulted from medical malpractice and/or negligence, however, you can pursue a civil lawsuit for damages. These damages can help you contend with post-treatment bills, upcoming surgeries, and essential at-home care.
You must, however, provide evidence of negligence if you want to pursue a placental abruption lawsuit in civil court. Without evidence of negligence, a civil judge may dismiss your case as an unavoidable tragedy.
What to Do When Placental Abruption Results in Wrongful Death
If your child passes in the womb, you can still take action against a negligent medical institution. As the parent of a passed child, you have the right to request damages attending to your child’s losses as well as to your own injuries.
Our team takes a compassionate approach to wrongful death cases involving the passing of a child. We give you as much space as you need to contend with the grief of your losses. To this point, we can take over your case and begin building a lawsuit without having to make you relive your child’s passing.
Either you or your personal executor can meet with our team to discuss the start of a wrongful death lawsuit. We can provide the applicable party with regular updates as to your case’s progress.
Birth Injury Lawyers Stand With You in Civil Court
Placental abruption can dramatically alter your child’s development while simultaneously causing you significant discomfort. If medical professionals do not acknowledge your symptoms or engage in behaviors that worsen your condition, you can be left injured and at a loss for options. You, however, have the right to bring evidence of this negligence forward in civil court.
Birth injury lawyers can stand with you if you want to hold a medical institution liable for your and your child’s injuries. Moreover, we can help you contend with the ever-changing laws surrounding pregnancy and birth injuries in the United States.
Don’t wait to learn everything you need to know about placental abruptions. For more information about how our services can benefit your family, you can contact our team today.
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