Case: Delay in delivery causing brain injury: Lucy Samantha Jones (by her father and litigation friend, Christopher Jones) v Avon, Gloucester and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority

摘要

Having recognized the risks attendant upon a trial of labour,nthe Defendant should have provided the level of monitor-ning reasonably required; in view of the progress of labour,nthe Defendants should have recognized that the Claimantnshould have been delivered by Caesarean section sooner;nthe Defendants failed to recognize the latest CTG trace wasnabnormal to review and deliver the Claimant by Caesareannsection; they failed to recognize the signs of impendingnuterine rupture promptly.