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[quote=Anonymous]Sorry the link doesn't work anymore. I wonder if they took it down because the jury wasn't allowed to know anything about what happened before the couple arrived at Johns Hopkins. Some of the details follow:

"Patient #2 (baby with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and seizure disorder):

On or about April 14, 2010, the Board received a complaint from ... Director of Labor and Delivery and ... Director of Gynecology and Obstetrics, at Hospital B. According to the complaint, between March 25th and 26th, 2010, Respondent failed to follow the standard of care in her management of an attempted home birth by:

I. Utilizing Intramuscular Oxytocin to stimulate labor in a term pregnancy;
II. Using fundal pressure in the second stage of labor to attempt to cause descent of the fetus;
III. Using vaginal chlorhexadrine, rather than intravenous penicillin, in labor to treat a known group B beta hemolytic strep vaginal carrier to prevent early onset GBS neonatal sepsis;
IV. Misdiagnosing fetal station resulting in an unnecessary episiotomy. The physical exam on admission to Hospital B was a fetus impacted in the vagina at + 1 station which was incompatible with the report that the fetus had been crowning when the episiotomy was performed...

... Patient B delivered a male infant ("Baby B") by LSTCS, with a vertex fetal presentation and occiput posterior ("OP") position at birth. The APGAR scores were 1 at 1 minute and 5 at 5 minutes and cord/Initial blood gas was ph 7.1; pC02 63; p02 10; BE -13. Baby B was limp and cyanotic on delivery with nuchal cord x 1, required PPV for 3 minutes before being transitioned to CPAP. Baby B was transported to the NICU on CPAP with diagnoses of Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy and Seizure disorder.

Baby B was transferred to a pediatric rehabilitation hospital on April 21, 2010."[/quote]

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