Representing Injured and Disabled Infants, Children, and Their Families.
Dr. Bradshaw and Birth Trauma Litigation: Our law offices have successfully helped people pursue birth trauma actions resulting in millions of dollars in recovery. Birth trauma cases that have resulted in brain injury or cerebral palsy are a subset of Medical Malpractice. The common definition is: improper health care that causes permanent brain damage to develop shortly before, during and/or after birth. Dr. Bradshaw is an attorney and physician with specialized training in this specific type of birth trauma. Dr. Bradshaw has worked as lead attorney on birth trauma cases, and has consulted and worked with attorneys throughout the United States.
The key to success in these cases is understanding many individual tests and the integration of these tests into a cohesive picture of what happened, what went wrong. The primary focus in many cases is the fetal heart tracing. The unborn baby's heart rate responds in characteristic fashion to the various stresses of labor. The ability to "read" what is happening in the womb based upon the fetal heart tracing is key to successfully pursuing many birth trauma cases. The unborn baby may show characteristic changes to low oxygen levels. The changes vary depending on the cause of the low oxygen and how slow, or sudden, the changes occur (for example, the tracing immediately above shows, at the red arrow, not just a deceleration, but a biphasic "W" deceleration, a type of deceleration that is indicative of cord compression).
Dr. Bradshaw's training and experience in reading fetal heart tracings comes from working on individual cases, consulting with expert OB doctors and also includes Harvard Medical School CME certification in Obstetrics. Dr. Bradshaw's training and experience in the area of Birth Trauma includes the interpretation of fetal heart tracings, umbilical blood cases, placental pathology and much more. Dr. Bradshaw is also on the Board of Governors for the Birth Trauma Litigation Group with the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. There are less than 100 attorneys in the United States with this distinction.