Physician Does not Treat Premature Newborn For GBS
In a published case, a doctor handled the delivery of an expecting mother’s baby in the thirty-sixth week of the woman’s pregnancy. A full term delivery is considered around forty weeks. The child was thus slightly premature. A premature delivery is a known risk factor for the infant acquiring an infection from the group b strep bacteria. Physicians typically advise that antibiotics be administered in the course of labor to limit the danger of infection to the child. Regrettably, this doctor failed to observe this recommendation. In addition, the physician failed to give antibiotics to the baby after birth. The child came down with a severe respiratory infection. Consequently, the child had to remain in the hospital for a number of months. The child sustained irreversible respiratory damage. The law firm that handled this claim documented that the matter settled for $1.6 Million.