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Texas Birth Injury Lawyer, Texas Primary Pulmonary
Hypertension PPH Lawyer, Texas Infant Traumatic Injury
Lawyer, and Texas Small Child Traumatic Injury Lawyer (Birth
Injury and Birth Defect Lawsuits)
Avoidable
birth injuries, birth
defects, fatal accidents, and traumatic injuries are some of the most devastating problems that can
occur to a parent, family, and/or a small child. Parents
and family who
should be celebrating the life of their new child, are often
caught off guard when their child is taken from them, born with severe
disabilities, or suffers significant injuries in an
avoidable accident. After a death, accident, or
discovery of a birth defect, the family is often busy
taking care of the child with the serious health problems or
grieving their loss,
and often does not have the time or energy to seek
compensation from or battle the party or parties that caused the
death, birth defect or accident.
If you have lost a child or believe that your child has
suffered a birth defect, traumatic injury, or birth injury as a result of another
person's negligence or a
defective drug,
contact Austin Texas Birth Injury and Birth Defect Lawyer
Jason Coomer
for a free review of your Texas Birth
Injury Lawsuit, Texas Infant Injury Lawsuit, or Texas Birth Defect
Lawsuit or
use our online submission form.
Texas Birth Injury Hypoxia Brain Damage Lawsuits
(Causes of Hypoxia During Birth)
Several types of accidents and negligent
actions can cause an unborn child to suffer hypoxia
resulting in a brain injury during the birthing process
including a difficult labor, unreasonable delay in
performing a C-section, delay in delivering an extremely
large baby, gestational diabetes in the mother, failure to
properly and timely resuscitate the baby, maternal or fetal
bleeding complications, excessive administration of Pitocin,
and placenta previa. It is important during any birth to
have medical professionals that are able to protect the
safety of the mother and child by not allowing any of these
factors to become a problem. If problems arise and these
difficulties occur during the birth of your child and the
child sustains a brain injury, you may want to contact a
Texas Birth Injury Lawyer with the skill and dedication to
help you get the compensation.
Texas Medication Birth Defect Lawsuits
Several
medications, products, and drugs have been linked to birth
defects. Some of these medication and products have
ample warnings that warn pregnant women to avoid taking
these products while they are pregnant, however, some
manufacturers have hidden the real dangers of their product
in order to sell more of their product and value profits
over healthy babies. For these manufacturers, they may
have short term profits, but over the long term they will
suffer for the long term birth defects that they have
caused.
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Antidepressants (SSRIs)
Birth Defect Claims
Some medications that have been linked to
birth defects include Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor
Antidepressants (SSRIs). Women that have taken SSRIs
after the 20th week of pregnancy have a 6-fold
increased risk of developing persistent pulmonary
hypertension, a life-threatening lung disorder.
Infants with persistent pulmonary hypertension have
abnormal blood flow through the heart and lungs and do not
get enough oxygen to their bodies and may become very sick
or die. For more information on Selective Serotonin
Reuptake Inhibitor Antidepressant Birth Defect Claims,
please go to our SSRI Birth Defect Claim Information Page.
The
SSRIs antidepressants that have been
linked to persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN) include Paxil by GlaxoSmithKline, Zoloft marketed by Pfizer; Prozac
sold by Eli Lilly; Celexa and Lexapro by Forest
Laboratories, Effexor marketed by Wyeth, Luvox by Solvay,
and the generic makers of these drugs include Barr
Pharmaceuticals, Ranbaxy Labs and Genpharm.
Infants born with PPHN often require
mechanical assistance to breath and even worse about 10% to
20% of the infants do not survive even when they receive
treatment. The PPHN babies that do survive often experience
developmental delays, brain abnormalities and hearing loss,
experts say.
Lamictal Birth Defect Claims
Lamictal is a drug used
to treat bipolar episodes and the most serious forms
of epileptic seizures. Unfortunately, there
is now an association between pregnant women taking
Lamictal in there first three months of pregnancy and their
children being born with a cleft palate or lip. If you or a
loved one has taken Lamictal during pregnancy and a baby has
been born with a cleft lip or palate, please seek medical
assistance as soon as possible and feel free to e-mail any
questions you might have to
texasbirthinjurylawyer@texaslawyers.com.
Cerebral Palsy Medical Negligence Lawsuits, Texas
Medical Negligence Lawsuits, and Federal Tort Claims Act
Negligence Lawsuits
"Cerebral" refers to the brain and "palsy"
to muscle weakness/poor control. Cerebral palsy itself is
not progressive, but is a developmental problem that can
occur during fetal development, the birthing process, or
infancy. Once a child has cerebral palsy, the child will
not get worse over time, however, conditions such as muscle
spasticity can develop which may get better or worse over
time. Although cerebral palsy is not "curable", training and
therapy treatments can help improve function.
The term "cerebral palsy" refers to any one
of a number of neurological disorders that appear in infancy
or early childhood and permanently affect body movement and
muscle coordination. Even though cerebral palsy affects
muscle movement, it isn’t caused by problems in the muscles
or nerves. It is caused by abnormalities or damage in parts
of the brain that control muscle movements. The majority of
children with cerebral palsy are born with it, although it
may not be detected until months or years later. The early
signs of cerebral palsy usually appear before a child
reaches 3 years of age. The most common symptoms are a lack
of muscle coordination when performing voluntary movements
(ataxia); stiff or tight muscles and exaggerated reflexes (spasticity);
walking with one foot or leg dragging; walking on the toes,
a crouched gait, or a “scissored” gait; and muscle tone that
is either too stiff or too floppy. A small number of
children have cerebral palsy as the result of brain damage
in the first few months or years of life, brain infections
such as bacterial meningitis or viral encephalitis, or head
injury from a motor vehicle accident, a fall, or child
abuse.
Cerebral Palsy usually occurs during fetal
development, but can occur before, during, or shortly after
birth; or during infancy. The faulty development or damage
to motor areas in the brain disrupts the brain's ability to
adequately control movement and posture. Symptoms of
Cerebral Palsy can range in severity.
Medical mistakes during the labor and
delivery process are to blame for thousands of children with
Cerebral Palsy. Unfortunately, many parents don't realize
that their healthcare provider might be to blame for their
child's Cerebral Palsy. If your child suffers from Cerebral
Palsy and you believe it was caused by negligence, feel free
to contact Texas Cerebral Palsy Lawyer Jason Coomer for a
review of your potential
Medical Negligence Cerebral Palsy Lawsuit.
Causes of Serious Brain Injuries and Brain Damage (Traumatic
Brain Damage
Lawsuits)
Serious brain injuries can occur through
traumatic impact to the head caused by an
automobile accident,
serious fall, falling object,
construction accident, accidental gun shot,
boating accident, or a
vicious attack. Severe trauma to the head can cause the
brain to move inside the skull and injure the brain. The
skull typically protects the brain from injury, but because
the inside of the skull is rough a traumatic event that
causes the brain to move or to swell inside the skull can
cause the brain to press up against the skull and cause
serious brain damage.
Texas Infant Brain Injury, Child Head Injury, and
Hypoxia (Medication Interaction, Carbon Monoxide, and
Drowning Victim) Lawyer
Brain injuries including
Hypoxia can be
caused by several factors including a traumatic injury, lack of oxygen,
drowning, carbon monoxide poisoning,
smoke inhalation, or drug
interactions.
If you or a loved one have suffered a serious brain injury
or brain damage, the most important thing you can do is to
find a good medical doctor to assess the injury so you know
what you are dealing with and how to best treat the injury.
Federal Tort Medical Malpractice Claims Act, Product
Liability, Traumatic Injury, and Texas Medical Negligence Birth Defect
Lawsuits
Federal Tort Claims Act Medical
Negligence Lawsuits, SSRI Antidepressant PPH Product
Liability Lawsuits, Texas Traumatic Injury to an Infant, and Texas
Medical Malpractice Birth Defect Lawsuits are
some of the most complicated types of cases in the practice
of law. As a Texas birth defect, infant trauma, and birth injury lawyer that has handles
birth defect, small child death & injury cases, and infant
injury and death claims, Jason Coomer works with
other Birth Defect and Injury Lawyers throughout the United States as
well as in Texas including Boston Birth Defect Lawyers,
Atlanta Birth Injury Lawyers, Virginia Birth Defect Lawyers,
Texas Child & Birth Injury Lawyers, and Houston Birth Defect
Lawyers. In working with other birth defect lawyers,
we seek compensation from negligent drug companies and other
companies that
have severely injured or killed infants or mothers through
selling dangerous products, medications, and drugs that they
should have know were dangerous, but hid significant
research in order to sell more product to make a profit.
If you have suffered the loss of your
baby or your baby has been born with a significant birth
defect, feel free to
contact Austin Texas Birth Defect
Lawsuit and Birth Injury
Lawsuit Attorney, Jason S. Coomer.
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