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After wondering if your baby is getting enough breast milk or formula, new parents worry most about their baby’s development. If your labor and delivery was difficult, or your baby had a lack of oxygen to the brain during birth, wasn’t breathing ...

Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome can be a life-threatening gastrointestinal (GI) disorder caused by a compression of the third portion of the duodenum (part of the small intestine) in between the abdominal aorta (AA) and superior mesenteric ...

Osteomyelitis is inflammation or infection of a bone that is usually caused by bacterial infection. Bone infections in children are primarily hematogenous, or they originated in the blood, although osteomyelitis secondary to penetrating trauma, surge ...

Kernicterus means “yellow kern” which is indicative of the part of the baby’s brain that is stained yellow. This yellowing occurs when a newborn develops hyperbilirubinemia or bilirubin encephalopathy. The sad thing is that kernicterus is a “ ...

The Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacterium can be found in contaminated food such as meat, dairy products, and juice. It can also be present in swimming pools or lakes that are contaminated with feces and at petting zoos. Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS ...

ABO blood type incompatibility can occur when the blood type of the baby or newborn, differs from the mother’s blood type. This can happen if: In ABO hemolytic disease of the newborn, the maternal IgG antibodies for the specific ABO blood groups ca ...

Many times it is medical malpractice or doctor error that leads to kernicterus and permanent brain damage in a baby. Kernicterus means “yellow kern” which is indicative of the part of the brain that is stained yellow. This yellowing occurs when a ...

Yes and No. Malignant hyperthermia is when the body’s temperature rises quickly after an anesthetic medication that can cause the high fever is administered. Unfortunately, Most cases of malignant hyperthermia are seen in children and adults younge ...

The American Academy of Neurology has released guidelines that recommend monitoring during spinal surgery and certain chest surgeries to protect the spinal cord and lessen the danger of paralysis. Spinal cord monitoring or watching evoked p ...

When you were admitted to a hospital because the doctors needed to treat an infection you had, the last thing on your mind was that you were going to get another infection. The sad reality is that every patient that is admitted to a hospital is at ri ...

Current research shows that about only one in ten patients having a heart attack or myocardial infarction (MI) are transferred to a heart hospital within the recommended 30 minutes. Many local hospitals or smaller community hospitals are not equipped ...

Any person who traumatically or unexpectedly loses a loved one, especially a child, will tell you that the pain never goes away. Here at the Beasley Law Firm, we have witnessed the pain and suffering that many parents had to deal with after the unnec ...