{"id":2836,"date":"2014-01-06T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2014-01-06T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T14:36:13","slug":"asphyxia-can-cause-cerebral-palsy-childbirth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/asphyxia-can-cause-cerebral-palsy-childbirth\/","title":{"rendered":"Asphyxia Can Cause Cerebral Palsy In Childbirth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Birth injury lawsuits are brought because of the catastrophic damage to an infant during or immediately after childbirth.<span>\u00a0<\/span>One of the more significant injuries to a baby is cerebral palsy.<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cerebral_palsy\">Cerebral palsy<\/a> is described as a group of disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitations that are associated with injury to the developing fetus or infant brain.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Motor disorders of cerebral palsy are often accompanied by disturbances of sensation, cognition, communication, perception, behavior and seizure disorder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">When a child is damaged at birth by the negligence of an obstetrician, gynecologist or other medical practitioner, these defendants often turn to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acog.org\/\">American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists<\/a> (ACOG) and their supporters to defend these cases.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Many of the defenses presented are based on published documents that are used by experts in the cases that are unscientific, yet are designed to negate a causal relationship between asphyxia and cerebral palsy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asphyxia\">Asphyxia<\/a> is a major cause of cerebral palsy (CP), but these experts present testimony that would prevent a plaintiff family from proving that their child&#8217;s brain damage was caused by asphyxia.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/asphyxia-can-cause-cerebral-palsy-childbirth\/#more-2836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birth injury lawsuits are brought because of the catastrophic damage to an infant during or immediately after childbirth.\u00a0One of the more significant injuries to a baby is cerebral palsy.\u00a0Cerebral palsy is described as a group of disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitations that are associated with injury to the developing [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,100,101,53,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injury","category-brain-injury","category-cerebral-palsy","category-medical-negligence","category-misdiagnosis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Asphyxia Can Cause Cerebral Palsy In Childbirth &#8212; 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