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A new source of online information about Erb's Palsy - birth injury condition causing paralysis of infants' arms - has been launched by a legal compensation claims service.
This condition, potentially caused by medical negligence, happens during birth should a baby's shoulder gets stuck behind the mother's pubic bone. A difficult delivery affecting the baby this way is called 'shoulder dystocia'.
View the Erb's Palsy birth accident site by clicking here. It is based in the United States but contains much useful legal and medical information for all English speakers.
Birth injury claims tend to arise over an attending doctor not properly managing or handling the birth as and when the difficult delivery happens.
A medical view is that the baby is said to be too big to fit through the birth canal.
A 'shoulder dystocia' diagnosis is made by doctors when a baby's shoulders fail to deliver almost as soon as the baby's head emerges.
Wedged in the birth canal, shoulder nerve damage can occur. One such injury is called brachial plexus injury, which is the root injury named Erb's Palsy or Erb-Duchenne Palsy.
When this occurs, a doctor may need to carry out manoeuvres such as considerable manipulation to complete the birth.
An infant's injuries could be alleged to be caused by the attending physician's actions - and it is these that maybe subject to legal action.
One in 1000 births in the United States are said to suffer Erb's Palsy.
LegalView, an Internet legal resource, set up the Erb's Palsy site for anyone with or connected to someone with the condition.
It also serves as a 'medical malpractice / negligence' information bank should a legal case be considered to be brought for a birth injury compensation claim – and to find a reputable personal injury lawyer to assist.
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