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Michigan Lawyers Weekly

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This birth trauma case against Carl R. Darnall Medical Center in Fort Hood, Texas, arose out of the defendant’s negligence in not recognizing and acting upon non-reassuring fetal heart rate tracings during labor in the hours before delivery. Compounding this negligence was the decision to start Pitocin to augment labor in direct violation of Carl ... The post Pitocin issued despite worsening fetal heart rate tracings first appeared on Michigan …