If your baby was injured by a vacuum extractor used during a vaginal birth delivery, you and your child may be entitled to recover compensation from a vacuum extractor lawsuit case or settlement claim. Contact a birth injury lawyer to request a free case review.
A team of birth injury attorneys and personal injury lawyers is investigating vacuum extractor birth injury lawsuit cases and settlement claims involving babies who were injured by a vacuum extractor during a vaginal birth delivery due to medical malpractice or negligence.
A vacuum extractor is a type of tool used by an obstetrician-gynecologist in a vacuum extraction (venthouse) or vacuum-assisted vaginal delivery of a baby. A vacuum extractor consists of a suction cup with a handle and a vacuum pump that is used to suction a baby’s head so that a doctor can gently pull the baby out of the birth canal during contractions.
It has been estimated that the percentage of births delivered by vaccum extraction in the U.S. is about 2.5% of all deliveries.
Vacuum Extractor Injury Lawsuit Cases
Vacuum extractor injury lawsuit and settlement cases potentially being investigated include claims involving babies who, due to possible medical malpractice or neligence, suffered vacuum extraction related complications or injuries during assisted vaginal delivery, including:
- Brain damage
- Spinal cord injury
- Head trauma
- Hematoma
- Subgaleal hematoma
- Brain bleed under the skull
- Hydrocephalus
- Neonatal intracranial hemorrhage
- Cerebral palsy
- Brachial plexus nerve damage
- Erb’s palsy
- Klumpke’s palsy
- Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE)
- Skull fracture
- Clavical fracture
- Seizures
- Nerve damage
- Shoulder dystocia
- Fetal death
- Other vacuum extractor injury lawsuit claims
- Other birth injury lawsuit cases
Vacuum Extractor Medical Malpractice Claims
Vacuum extractor medical malpractice lawsuit and settlement claims can include the failure of a doctor, OB-GYN or obstetrician to exercise reasonable care in using a vacuum extractor during a vacuum extraction delivery. While vacuum extraction can lessen the time it takes to deliver a baby and make the birthing process faster and easier, it can result in serious birth injuries when used inappropriately or improperly.
For instance, vacuum extraction injury can result if a physician pulls too hard on the vacuum extractor, pulls for too long, applies too much force, twists the head too much or has a poor or wrong grip on the baby’s head.
Vacuum extraction malpractice cases can involve the use of a vacuum extractor in cases when it may not be appropriate to do so in the circumstances of the particular birth of a child, where, for example:
- a mother was less than 34 weeks pregnant
- a baby’s head had not moved beyond the midpoint of the birth canal
- a baby’s fetal position was unknown
- a baby’s arms, shoulders, feet or butt came first through birth canal
- a baby was too large (fetal macrosomia)
- a mother’s pelvis was too small
- a labor was not prolonged
- there was an absence of maternal fatigue
- there was absence of fetal distress
- a mother was able to safely push
- there was an intact fetal membrane (not ruptured)
- there was an incomplete dilatation of cervix
- there was a prior forceps delivery that failed
- there were more than three vacuum attempts
- forceps were used with the vacuum extractor
- there was an unengaged fetal head
- the baby had a fetal bleeding disorder
- there was inadequate anesthesia
- baby has a medical condition that increases risks of injury
- a C-section could have been timely and safely performed
- the OB/GYN lacked experience/training in vacuum extraction
- other medical malpractice claims
Time Is Limited To File A Vacuum Extraction Injury Lawsuit. Connect With a Birth Injury Lawyer.
Deadlines known as statutes of limitation and statutes of repose may limit the amount of time that parents, families and other claimants have to file a vacuum extractor injury lawsuit case to try to recover compensation for vacuum extraction related injuries or complications.
This means that if a vacuum extractor lawsuit claim is not filed before the applicable time limit or deadline, the claimant may be barred from ever taking legal action or pursuing litigation regarding the vacuum extractor birth injury claim. That is why it is important to connect with a vacuum extraction birth injury lawyer or attorney as soon as possible.
If your baby was injured by a vacuum extractor during an assisted vaginal birth delivery, you may be entitled to recover compensation from a vacuum extractor injury lawsuit or settlement. Contact an vacuum extractor birth injury lawyer to request a free case review.
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