Sepsis Infections

Our Michigan birth injury lawyers handle cases involving sepsis infections in newborns. Sepsis is a bacterial infection in the blood. It is especially dangerous and life-threatening to newborns who simply are unable to fight off this condition. It can cause speech impairments, blindness and vision impairments, and even mental retardation.

Septic shock may occur when the body is fighting a severe infection. Because newborns simply do not have strong enough immune systems to fight off many infections, harmful bacteria can continue to spread through their bodies and cause permanent and serious injuries. If the body is unable to fight off the infection, bacteria continue to spread, entering the blood and tissues.

Infants that develop a sepsis infection may exhibit the following symptoms:

-Fever
-Lethargy
-Difficulty feeding
-Change in behavior
-Unusual rash
-Causes of Sepsis

Group B streptococcus (strep) is the most common cause of infection and meningitis among infants and can also cause pneumonia in newborns. It can be transferred to the newborn by the mother during delivery or can be the result of an environment that is not sterile, like a hospital delivery room or intensive care unit.

It is essential that hospitals and doctors take all necessary measures to prevent a child from being sickened by a group B infection. This requires them to make the hospital as sterile as possible and to prescribe anti-biotics to pregnant mothers during labor to prevent the infection from being passed onto their child. Once a child is struck with a group B infection, it is essential that the hospital diagnose the condition and commence treatment immediately. The failure to do these things may give rise to a sepsis birth injury lawsuit.

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We are Michigan cerebral palsy medical malpractice lawyers and Michigan birth injury lawyers handling cases involving birth trauma, c-section delay, shoulder dystocia, fetus asphyxia, fetal asphyxia, Group B Streptocococcus (GBS), hypoxic ishemic encephalopathy, anoxic encephalopathy, lack of oxygen, neonatal, pre-term birth, prenatal injury, placenta separation, uterine rupture, umbilical cord compression,umbilical cord clamping,anoxic brain injury, jaundice, kernicterus, hydrocephalus, hyperbilirubinea, RH-ABO incompatibility, sepsis, infections,infectious disease, meningitis, forcep injuries, nursery burn injuries, and labor and delivery negligence.

We represent Michigan birth injury victims diagnosed with brain damage, cerebral palsy, spastic cerebral palsy, ataxic cerebral palsy, athetoid cerebral palsy, brachial plexus, Erb's palsy, mental retardation, premature birth, hypoxic-ischemic injury, anoxic brain injury, hydrocephalus, encephalopathy,spina bifida, neural tube defects, blindness, hearing loss, and all other types of brain injury.

We represent birth injury malpractice victims in birth trauma cases against hospitals, doctors, physicians, obstetricians, gynecologists, OBGYNs, nurses, midwives, birthing centers, and clinics.

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