Medical News Summary: Husband fails in lawsuit over wife’s death following a sudden birth
About: Husband fails in lawsuit over wife’s death following a sudden birth
Date: 12 December 2004
Source: Richmond Times Dispatch
Author: Bill Mckelway
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by Richmond Times Dispatch): Obstetricians are the most frequently sued medicine specialists. A woman died a day after her baby’s birth from disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. This condition is results when an internal imbalance causes a lack of blood clotting ability. The cause of the condition could have been a sudden birth, failure of uterus to constrict or an infection. The doctor allegedly failed to monitor the woman’s reduce urine output following the birth. She was also bleeding heavily and had poor vital signs. She had a hysterectomy to try to stop the bleeding. It was argued that the woman would most likely have survived if she had been given blood clotting agents soon enough. However, the jury eventually delivered a verdict in favor of the obstetrician.
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Related Disease Topics: Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy, Uterine atony, Blood clotting disorder, Birth, Infection, Bleeding, Heart attack
Related Symptom Topics: Inability of blood to clot, severe bleeding
Related Medical News Channels: This medical news summary article refers to the following medical channel categories:
- Hysterectomy
- Medical malpractice
- Medical malpractice and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy
- Medical malpractice and uterine atony
- Medical malpractice and blood clotting disorder
- medical malpractice and birth
- Medical malpractice and infection
- medical malpractice and bleeding
- Cause of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy
- Cause of blood clotting disorder
- Cause of uterine atony
- Death from uterine atony
- Death from disseminated intravascular coagulopathy
- Death from blood clotting disorder
- death from birth
- death from bleeding
- death from heart attack
- cause of heart attack
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