How Can a C-Section Be Dangerous?

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Your doctor may order you to undergo an emergency cesarean section (C-section) if they deem a natural delivery is too dangerous for both you and your newborn. However, it is unfortunately quite possible that your doctor may make your emergency C-section just as harmful. With that being said, continue reading to learn how a doctor can make a C-section dangerous and how one of the experienced New York City C-section injury attorneys at Mark L. Bodner, P.C. can step in if your newborn is put in harm’s way.

How can a doctor make a C-section dangerous?

Your doctor may have delivered countless babies through emergency C-sections before having you as their patient. However, it may only take the slightest misjudgment to make yours a risky one for you and your newborn. Without further ado, it is possible that your doctor made your C-section dangerous in any of the following ways:

  • Your doctor may pierce your stomach, bladder, or other organs during the surgical procedure.
  • Your doctor may fail to monitor for blood clots after your surgical procedure, which may break off and travel to your lungs.
  • Your doctor may give the anesthesiologist the wrong medical information for the type and dosage of anesthesia you need during the surgical procedure.
  • Your doctor may schedule your C-section too early (i.e., before 39 weeks), which may cause your newborn to have health problems at birth and later on in life.
  • Your doctor may fail to order an emergency C-section on time, which may cause your newborn to undergo fetal distress or experience a lack of oxygen to their brain.
  • Your doctor may fail to order an emergency C-section on time, which may cause your newborn to endure serious nerve damage and eventually a brachial plexus injury.

What should I do if a doctor puts my newborn or me in danger?

After your emergency C-section that went wrong, you may have gotten blood clots that left life-threatening damage to your lungs. Or, even worse, your newborn may have endured a fetal stroke due to the disrupted blood flow to their brain. No matter what your exact injuries and damages are, it is completely unacceptable that your doctor threatened your and your newborn’s safety and well-being in this way. So, a justified response may be to file a medical malpractice claim against them.

For your claim, you may have to effectively argue that you and your newborn incurred injuries that would have otherwise been easily avoided if your doctor upheld their duty of care. What’s more, you may have to prove that you now have long-term medical bills and other economic and non-economic damages that, again, are completely unnecessary.聽Contact a skilled New York City birth injury attorney to gain the emotional and legal support you require during this pivotal time. Our team at Mark L. Bodner, P.C. looks forward to helping you.