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- Title
Claim that resident's attempt at vacuum delivery caused injury.
- Abstract
The article focuses on a case filed by a Michigan woman against an attending obstetrician who used forceps to deliver the infant and was then diagnosed with mild hemiparesis. The child was age 11 at the time of trial and has also been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. The woman claimed that the child's injury was caused by the unsupervised vacuum extraction. A settlement between both parties has reached for $825,000.
- Subjects
ACTIONS &; defenses (Administrative law); OBSTETRICIAN malpractice; DELIVERY (Obstetrics); ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder; BEHAVIOR disorders in children; STRUCTURED financial settlements
- Publication
Contemporary OB/GYN, 2004, Vol 49, Issue 11, p45
- ISSN
0090-3159
- Publication type
Article