{"id":467,"date":"2016-02-23T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagobirthinjurylawyersblog.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2016-09-05T11:34:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T16:34:25","slug":"timing-babys-hie-hypoxic-ischemic-encephalopathy-injury-debunks-acog-publications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/timing-babys-hie-hypoxic-ischemic-encephalopathy-injury-debunks-acog-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Timing a Baby\u2019s HIE or Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy Injury Debunks ACOG Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When an infant is tragically injured during childbirth by the negligence of an obstetrician, nurse wife or nurse, the defense, with few exceptions, relies on medical publications. Most of these publications come from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acog.org\">American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)<\/a>. On the other hand, a plaintiff\u2019s neuroradiology expert would be called to testify about the baby\u2019s time of injury. ACOG has taken most birth trauma injury cases as having occurred in the prenatal stages of childbirth. In other words, during labor and delivery the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birthinjuryguide.org\/birth-injury\/types\/hypoxic-ischemic-encephalopathy-hie\/\">HIE injury<\/a>\u00a0(hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy), which is the basis for the lawsuit, didn\u2019t occur during labor and delivery, but instead occurred as a matter of course during the time prenatally. That\u2019s the standard defense.<\/p>\n<p>ACOG published in January 2003 a document that created strict criteria for establishing the existence of intrapartum HIE. Applying this stringent criteria, ACOG defenders argued that the injury to the baby occurred not during labor and delivery but prenatally. The claim that the baby was asphyxiated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/medical\/intrapartum\">intrapartum<\/a>, that is during labor and delivery, could not have happened because the strict criteria were not met.<\/p>\n<p>The published paper by ACOG took the position that 4-10% of moderate to severe neonatal encephalopathy occurred as a result of hypoxia in the intrapartum period.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/timing-babys-hie-hypoxic-ischemic-encephalopathy-injury-debunks-acog-publications\/#more-467\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an infant is tragically injured during childbirth by the negligence of an obstetrician, nurse wife or nurse, the defense, with few exceptions, relies on medical publications. Most of these publications come from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). On the other hand, a plaintiff\u2019s neuroradiology expert would be called to testify about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,15,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injury","category-cerebral-palsy","category-hypoxic-ischemic-encephalopathy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Timing a Baby\u2019s HIE or Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy Injury Debunks ACOG Publications &#8212; 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