Twin Delivery

Cook County, IL: (Nov-07-07) The estate of a 5-year-old girl brought charges against Advocate Christ Hospital, Oak Lawn, alleging that she was seriously injured when nurses and a third year resident at the facility failed to properly monitor the labor and delivery of twins in January of 2002. The suit claimed that the mother of twins was scheduled for planned caesarean section on the morning of January 16, 2002. On January 15, 2002, she presented to Christ Hospital in labor and provided documentation that she was to have a c-section. Records show that due to medical negligence, she was prepped for a vaginal delivery and was attended to by a nurse and a third year resident until the very end of labor. The mother claimed that during the laboring process, there were almost two continuous hours with no adequate fetal monitor tracings for the twins. After the vaginal delivery, Twin A, with intervention from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, was diagnosed with severe brain injury that would require her to be dependent on constant care for the rest of her life. Twin B was born normal and healthy with no signs of distress or injury.

The hospital claimed that the cause of the child's brain injury was a chronic twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome that took place in the two weeks prior to presentation at the hospital; and that the mother never requested a c-section. Spokespersons stated that c-section wouldn't have been possible as the mother had ingested food making an elective c-section unreasonably dangerous. As part of a settlement reached in the case, Cook County Judge Thomas Hogan approved a settlement of $6,250,000 that will stand to benefit the 5-year-old disabled twin. [PR WEB: TWIN DELIVERY]

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Published on Nov-9-07