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At 39 weeks gestation, Luhe Feng experienced painful contractions and blood-tinged discharge. She was admitted to Mercy Hospital & Medical Center where an electronic fetal monitor showed positive fetal movement. Approximately 45 minutes after her arrival, a nurse assessed minimal variability, late decelerations and absent fetal heart rate accelerations. The presence of meconium also was noted when Feng\u2019s membranes were artificially ruptured. Meconium<\/a> is a newborn infant’s earliest stool, often caused by stress.<\/p>\n

Despite the continuation of late decelerations, the treating obstetrician Dr. Yuhang Shek, told the nurse to anticipate a vaginal delivery. Another doctor later called Dr. Shek, who had left the hospital, and told him that Feng might be experiencing a placental abruption. Dr. Shek disagreed, and the other doctor consulted the department chair, who agreed that cesarean delivery was warranted. <\/p>\n

Feng\u2019s son, Dylan Gong, was born approximately 16 minutes later. His Apgar scores were one at one minute and four at five minutes. He required resuscitation and was transferred to a children\u2019s hospital, where he was diagnosed as having suffered hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Dylan, now age 9, suffers from cerebral palsy, developmental delays and other deficits.
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