Severely Brain Damaged child diagnosed with both HIE and seizures. This medical negligence action arose out of the negligence of key Labor & Delivery nurses, then compounded by OB attendings, over the final 4 hours of a labor occurring on June 9, 2020, at Kaiser-West Los Angeles (KWLA). The result was a failure to timely intervene with cesarean delivery when the fetal heart rate (FHR) went unrecognized from Category II to Category III, leaving the fetus, the plaintiff, with a terminal bradycardia, the need for advanced and lengthy resuscitation with sustained low Apgar scores and a capillary blood gas indicative of severe metabolic acidosis. Following a CRASH cesarean delivery, the newborn underwent brain cooling to minimize injury, during which seizures developed.
