{"id":893,"date":"2017-11-23T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/?p=893"},"modified":"2017-11-22T06:55:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T12:55:55","slug":"early-induction-labor-causes-hypoxic-ischemic-encephalopathy-newborn-baby-2-5-million-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/early-induction-labor-causes-hypoxic-ischemic-encephalopathy-newborn-baby-2-5-million-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Induction of Labor Causes Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy of Newborn Baby \u2013 $2.5 Million Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elien Lorenzo received prenatal care from Dr. Nelson Alvarez-Reyes, M.D., an obstetrician employed by the federally funded clinic. During her prenatal care, she received several ultrasounds at this clinic. One of the ultrasound reports estimated a delivery date based on her last menstrual period. The calculation of the delivery date was more than three weeks earlier than the baby\u2019s gestational age based on the measurements taken during the ultrasound test. Later test reports also showed the discrepancy of the projected delivery date. <\/p>\n<p>Despite this information, Dr. Alvarez-Reyes induced labor more than four weeks before Lorenzo\u2019s baby had reached full gestational age. <\/p>\n<p>Before the delivery, the baby was shown to be under fetal distress. The baby was later diagnosed as having suffered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cerebralpalsy.org\/about-cerebral-palsy\/cause\/hypoxic-ischemic-encephalopathy\">hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)<\/a>. The baby is now 4 years old and has developed mental delays, hearing loss and a seizure disorder.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/early-induction-labor-causes-hypoxic-ischemic-encephalopathy-newborn-baby-2-5-million-settlement\/#more-893\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elien Lorenzo received prenatal care from Dr. Nelson Alvarez-Reyes, M.D., an obstetrician employed by the federally funded clinic. During her prenatal care, she received several ultrasounds at this clinic. One of the ultrasound reports estimated a delivery date based on her last menstrual period. The calculation of the delivery date was more than three weeks [&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":[4,21,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injury","category-hypoxic-ischemic-encephalopathy","category-labor-and-delivery-negligence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Early Induction of Labor Causes Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy of Newborn Baby \u2013 $2.5 Million Settlement &#8212; Chicago Birth Injury Lawyers Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Elien Lorenzo received prenatal care from Dr. Nelson Alvarez-Reyes, M.D., an obstetrician employed by the federally funded clinic. 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