Our law firm, Miller & Zois, handles birth injury medical malpractice cases involving uterine rupture. Uterine rupture is a thankfully rare pregnancy complication impacting 3.3 pregnancies in 10,000.
What happens is the wall of the uterus suddenly tears open which can send the child into the mother's abdomen. So with a severe uterine rupture, the tear goes through all the layers of the uterus wall and leaves a hole through which the baby can actually come out. Uterine rupture is an extremely dangerous event that often has devastating consequences for both baby and mother.
Uterine ruptures often occur at the site of a scar line from a prior C-section. The risk for prior C-section cases jumps 22 in 10,000. When uterine rupture occurs during labor and delivery, there is an extremely short window of time for doctors to respond to avoid injury to the baby. Once rupture of the uterus occurs, this is a medical emergency. The OB has less than a half-hour to take action, most typically a C-section. If they do not move quickly, serious fetal injury or death is the result.
If the doctor or hospital delivery team fail to timely diagnose a uterine rupture or otherwise fail to properly and timely respond when a uterine rupture occurs, the may be liable for medical malpractice.
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