Baby Diagnosed With HIE? What Fetal Heart Monitoring Can Show in a Birth Injury Case
If your baby was diagnosed with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy after a difficult delivery, the fetal heart tracing may help explain what happened during labor. An HIE diagnosis alone doesn’t prove malpractice. An HIE birth injury claim looks at what the care team saw, how it responded, whether delivery was delayed, and whether that delay contributed to…