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Chapter 14 - Assisted Vaginal Birth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2022

By
Emily J Hotton  and
Joanna F Crofts
Edited by
Swati Jha  and
Eloise Power
Swati Jha
Affiliation:
Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield
Eloise Power
Affiliation:
Sergeants’ Inn, London
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JRM was one of twins, delivered by forceps at 29 weeks and suffered serious injury to his spinal cord around the time of his birth. The forceps caused traumatic injury and tearing of the lining of the spinal artery (arterial dissection), and subsequent clot formation within the vessel resulting in vascular injury to the spinal cord due to occlusion of a branch of the anterior spinal artery. It was alleged that this was due to the negligent use of forceps with the claimant in the occipito-lateral (OL) position at birth.

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Lessons from Medicolegal Cases in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Improving Clinical Practice
 , pp. 179 - 191
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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