Birth Injury Lawyers Group connects parents in Mesa, AZ, and across the country with birth injury lawyers who can help them after a careless doctor or nurse hurts their child. One way infants get injured by doctors is through broken bones.
Whether it’s from poor delivery practices, or something as stupid and harmful as dropping your newborn on the floor, our attorneys can help you seek compensation.
Your child will need immediate medical attention if they’ve broken a bone, and you shouldn’t have to pay if it wasn’t your fault. Our lawyers can help you.
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The Danger of Broken Bones in Infants
When a toddler breaks a bone, it’s easy for them to tell you where it hurts to find what bone is broken. Infants don’t have that capability yet. Also, infants’ bones rarely break all the way through because they’re still so flexible.
If the bones aren’t realigned right, they could quickly knit back together in a way that causes permanent impairment and pain. If you suspect your child has a broken bone, you must have it examined immediately for treatment.
Fortunately, if treated quickly, broken bones in infants heal well without any last damage. It’s the ones that go undetected or get broken unnecessarily that become the targets of infant broken bone lawsuits. A medical exam and your lawyer’s help can determine whether you have a case.
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Negligence and Infant Broken Bones
While genetic conditions like osteogenesis imperfecta cause some newborn broken bones, external trauma causes most. Pressure from birth, improper forceps use, or getting dropped can break an infant’s fragile bones.
All three can have a negligent root. If we can find that someone on your medical team acted outside the standards of care, you have a case, and you can receive compensation. Let’s take these in turn.
Birth Pressures
The most common broken bone in an infant is the collarbone or clavicle. Once the head passes the cervix, moms must push hard to move the infant’s shoulders through the same opening. This puts a lot of pressure on the clavicle. If labor goes on for too long, this bone can break. The upper arm and upper thigh are also vulnerable.
Having a baby that’s larger than average puts them at greater risk for broken bones and other birth complications like shoulder dystocia. If there is a high risk of these, your doctor should offer you the option of a cesarean section birth. If they don’t offer it, you may have a case.
Improper Forceps Use
Forceps are used to help remove a baby when it is stuck in the birth canal. Sometimes their use is necessary during birth emergencies, but they are a rough instrument. Essentially, they’re an enormous pair of tongs that grip the baby wherever they can.
Improper forceps use can break the skull of a baby or any other bone it can grip. Skull fractures are especially dangerous because they can create brain bleeding that leads to traumatic brain injury. These cases hinge on whether the use of forceps was justified and if they were used improperly.
External Trauma
It may be shocking to learn, but sometimes medical professionals handle babies too roughly or accidentally drop them on the ground. This can break a newborn’s tiny bones and cause many other medical issues.
If we can show that someone on your medical team harmed your child through trauma, it will be straightforward to build a birth injury case. Accidentally bruising a child is one thing, but breaking a bone takes effort. If you suspect your child’s bones have been broken, get another doctor to X-ray where you suspect a break happened.
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If There Is a Broken Bone…
There are things you can do if you suspect there is a broken bone. First, look for misshapen limbs or odd lumps on your child. Gently touch around them. If your baby reacts with pain at a touch over a small area, especially on the limbs or collarbone, get them to a doctor immediately.
Ask for medical imaging to see if your child has a broken bone. If the skull is broken, they may also need a CT or MRI scan to see if there is any brain bleeding or traumatic brain injury. Ask the examining doctor’s advice about the cause of the injury.
If you believe that your birth team caused the injury, the next step is to contact the Birth Injury Lawyers Group. Our team will connect you with an infant broken bones lawyer in Mesa, AZ, for a consultation. Take the results of the examination with you to your consultation, and they’ll tell you if you have a case.
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How Will My Birth Injury Lawyer Help Me?
Birth injury lawyers shield you from the burden of pursuing compensation while you care for your infant. They also act as your sword against insurance companies, hospitals, and doctors who try to argue that they don’t owe you a dime.
A lawyer will work on your behalf to gather evidence about your situation and how it has harmed you and your child, both financially and emotionally. With a strong case, they can push the insurers to give you a fair settlement for your child’s injuries.
Your lawyer can also take them to court if they do not listen to reason. In court, we will present your case to a judge and jury to render a verdict about how much compensation you should receive for your child’s injuries.
Get Your Case Started With One Phone Call
Once your infant has been diagnosed with a broken bone, the first step is to get them medical attention. The second step is to call the Birth Injury Lawyers Group. We will connect you with a Mesa infant broken bones attorney to evaluate your case.
All of our attorneys work on contingency and offer free case evaluations. Find out if you’re owed compensation by calling or texting the number on your screen. You can also email us through our contact page. One of our representatives will contact you to schedule your consultation.
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