Edmond, the couple’s attorney, said nurses and health care providers in the hospital should have had protocols in place to deal with the problem.
Jessica Ross and Treveon Isaiah Taylor Sr. are suing both the Southern Regional Medical Center in Riverdale and their obstetrician, Dr. Tracey St. Julian, who is not affiliated with the hospital, after she allegedly applied “ridiculously excessive force” when trying to deliver the baby with shoulder dystocia, according to their attorney, Roderick Edmond. The infant did not survive.
King said that in her deliveries, a risk factor like diabetes and a larger baby would typically prompt her to offer a couple “a primary C-section with a goal of ideally preventing a shoulder dystocia.” According to the lawsuit, the fetal monitor showed an abnormal fetal heartbeat starting at 9:26 p.m., and the heart rate continued to decrease until 10:36 p.m. There was no sign of a fetal heartbeat on the monitoring strips by the time St. Julian performed an emergency C--section at 11:49 p.m., the lawsuit states. The baby’s body was delivered at 12:11 a.m.
, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Additional data shows that the rate was highest among Black babies, with 10.6 deaths per 1,000 live births. “With medical trauma, we’re really mindful that one of the things that can compound onto symptoms is when we know that it could have been preventable,” said, a trauma specialist and professor of clinical psychology at Pepperdine University. “It occurs due to negligence or at the hands of another person.”
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