When you take medication, your health and your body are always affected. When you’re pregnant and you take medication, the drug will also affect your baby. That’s the reason that physicians are required to use the utmost care when they prescribe or administer medication to women who are pregnant. Unfortunately, medication errors are not uncommon in the U.S. In fact, as many as 1.5 million people in the country are harmed every year by avoidable medication mistakes, and many of those people are pregnant women.
When errors are made that involve medication, both mother and child can be negatively affected and suffer tragic complications, including birth injuries. The doctors or other medical professionals that cause these errors can be found liable for medical malpractice.
How Do Medication Errors Happen?
Medication errors can occur in several different ways. Pregnant women may experience these mistakes in the following ways:
Many times, medication mistakes are caused by negligence on the part of a doctor or another medical professional or by their failure to employ reasonable competence in the prescription or administration of medication. When negligence occurs and medication errors are made, serious complications, including birth injuries, can affect mother and child, sometimes causing lifelong medical and emotional problems.
What Types of Medication Errors Cause Birth Injuries?
There are several types of medication that can affect a pregnant woman and her unborn child negatively. Some of those include:
Birth Injuries Due to Medication Errors and Malpractice
When a medical professional or hospital makes a medication error that causes a birth injury or injures a mother, the individual or the hospital may be found to be negligent. Medical negligence is based on whether another similar medical professional would have acted differently when presented with the same situation. When a doctor, medical professional, or hospital is found to be negligent, a birth injury lawsuit may be brought against them.
If you or your baby suffered an injury due to a medication error, you should consult a birth injury attorney as soon as possible to determine whether you are entitled to compensation. Ross Feller Casey has an unmatched record of winning major birth injury lawsuits. We have experienced birth injury lawyers and medical doctors on staff to review your medical records and help you determine how to proceed with your case.
There is no charge for a case evaluation and all of our birth injury cases are handled on a contingency basis, which means that you don’t pay anything unless there is a financial recovery in your lawsuit.
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