Placental Abruption Attorneys
A placental abruption can be a medical emergency. When a child or parent is injured, Pisanchyn Law Firm helps families review the care and timeline with appropriate experts.
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Understanding Placental Abruption
Symptoms, monitoring, response, delivery decisions, and resulting injuries must be examined in context.
Reviewing the Medical Timeline
We gather relevant medical records and consult qualified experts to understand what happened, whether the care met applicable standards, and what support the family may need.
Tell Us What Happened
Free consultation. We can review the circumstances and explain possible next steps.
Medical Timeline
This part of the record can help clarify the medical timeline and the family’s needs.
Prenatal Records
This part of the record can help clarify the medical timeline and the family’s needs.
Delivery Notes
This part of the record can help clarify the medical timeline and the family’s needs.
Newborn Care
This part of the record can help clarify the medical timeline and the family’s needs.
Expert Review
This part of the record can help clarify the medical timeline and the family’s needs.
Future Needs
This part of the record can help clarify the medical timeline and the family’s needs.
Placental abruption is a risk to pregnant women, usually occurring in their third trimester. If the mother develops a placental abruption and it is not diagnosed and treated immediately, the mother could hemorrhage depriving the baby’s brain of oxygen. If your baby suffered severe birth injury as a result of this condition you should contact our birth injury lawyers at 1-800-444-5309 as soon as possible.
This condition itself is not malpractice, but failing to diagnose and/or treat it, is.
RISK FACTORS FOR PLACENTAL ABRUPTION
Some risk factors make this condition more likely, including the following:
- High blood pressure or pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH)
- Eclampsia
- Uterine scarring
- Blood clotting disorders
- Large number of previous pregnancies
- Twin, triplet or multiple pregnancy
- Abdominal trauma
- Prolonged rupture of membranes
- Short umbilical cord
- Advanced maternal age (AMA)
- Previous placental abruption
- Infections
If a woman has one or more of these risk factors and complains of common symptoms she should be evaluated immediately for the condition.
Large placental abruptions that are not diagnosed and treated right away are most harmful to the baby. Premature birth, brain damage, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), cerebral palsy, and even death could be the result of a failure to diagnose placental abruptions.
COMMON SYMPTOMS OF PLACENTAL ABRUPTION
You should be checked out immediately for if you are experiencing the following symptoms.
- Bleeding
- Abdominal pain
- Back pain
- Continuous contractions
- Hard abdomen
- Baby’s fetal movement or fetal heart rate have decreased
OUR PLACENTAL ABRUPTION LAWYERS CAN HELP
If a doctor failed to diagnose or treat a placental abruption and your baby has been severely injured as a result, you should consult with our birth injury lawyers at The Pisanchyn Law Firm as you could receive compensation and bring the medical professionals involved to justice. Consultation and legal representation for Pennsylvania birth injury cases is free until we win your case, and even then you will never pay out of pocket, we will only be paying you the money you deserve.
We know and understand that money and financial rewards could never give your baby a clean bill of health again, but someone needs to be held accountable for the tragedy they have imposed on you and your family. We want to be here for you during this difficult time, please, call our Pennsylvania placental abruption attorneys at our local numbers or toll free at 1-800-444-5309 for your free consultation. We have offices in Harrisburg, Scranton and Pittsburgh and will travel to you.
Information to Keep Together
- Keep prenatal, labor, delivery, and newborn medical records.
- Save test results, discharge documents, and follow-up notes.
- Record questions for your child’s treating clinicians.
- Track appointments, therapy, and related expenses.
- Preserve communications and a timeline while details are fresh.
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Placental Abruption FAQs
Does a diagnosis prove malpractice?
No. The cause and standard of care need individual review by qualified experts.
What records are useful?
Prenatal, delivery, newborn, specialist, and therapy records can help establish the timeline and ongoing needs.
Can we discuss a possible claim?
Yes. A free consultation can help identify what information is available and what review may be needed.
Help From Pisanchyn Law Firm
Our attorneys serve injured people and families in Scranton, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, and surrounding communities. We can review what happened and help document the injury’s impact.
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