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Erbs Palsy (Brachial Plexus Palsy) is an injury to the nerves that are responsible for the shoulders and arms. The results of this injury are paralysis of movement and the inability of moving fingers and the hand. This occurs generally during a difficult childbirth and appropriate methods are not employed.
Therefore, a birth injury of Erbs Palsy is generally observed during the birth process, when the brachial plexus nerves, described above, can be injured when there is excessive pulling of the baby’s head during delivery. While some factors may increase the risk of injury, like high birth weight or breech birth, Erbs Palsy can also be the result of improper delivery methods by your doctor or medical team.
There are generally four types of Erbs Palsy. One is Neurapraxia which occurs when the nerve has been damaged, but not torn. The second one is Rupture which occurs when the nerve is torn, but not separated from the spine. The third type is Avulsion and occurs when the nerve is torn from the spine. The last type is Neuroma which occurs when scar tissue grows around the injury and places pressure on the injured nerve, interfering with the nerve’s ability to send signals to the muscles.
There are several symptoms of Erbs Palsy which are not difficult to detect:
-A limp arm
-Lack of movement in the arm or hand. The affected arm may flop when the infant is rolled from side to side
- Missing Moro reflex, which causes an infant to react when startled by a sudden, loud noise by stretching out the arms and flexing the legs
-Inability to maintain the arm in a normal position (flexed at the elbow and held against the body)
- Decreased grip on the affected side
If you believe your child has Erbs Palsy (Brachial Plexus Palsy) that may have been caused by negligent medical care, one of our Erbs Palsy lawyer may be able to help. We have over thirty years of experience representing families like yours in birth injury cases resulting from substandard care. Our team of registered nurses will listen to your concerns and help get your questions answered.

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For a family, a birth injury is devastating and shocking news when discovered in their newborn child. Of course, all families do hope and expect that their children will be born without health problems. Unfortunately, this is not always the case.
It is known that prenatal monitoring and competent birth delivery can contribute to healthy birth cases. However, many birth injuries are caused by medical malpractice. In other cases, there are signs that the unborn baby is not developing in a healthy manner or is in fetal distress. If there are signs that the pregnancy or delivery has become high-risk and that the unborn baby is in fetal distress, time is essential. Indeed, in cases of fetal distress, the well being and even the life of the baby and mother depend on the immediate diagnosis and management of any complications that are placing mother and fetus at risk.
There are many obvious cases of birth injuries that resulted in cerebral palsy or erbs palsy. If your son or daughter suffers from a permanent neurologic or intellectual disability, or did not survive pregnancy or delivery and you suspect that the negligence of a doctor or other health care professional was the cause, you should contact a competent birth injury attorney immediately. The attorney will be able to work with you to determine whether there were signs that the pregnancy or delivery was high-risk, and whether the treatment provided was below the standard of care resulting in injury to the child or mother. Still, it is important to identify whether this injury was caused by malpractice or by nature itself.
It is clear physicians are responsible for the mother and fetus, and that is why it is critical to receive early prenatal care. It also helps spot any potential health problems before they become serious. Failure by physicians and medical care personnel to manage complications identified by prenatal care is a legitimate claim for medical malpractice.

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Birth injury of a newborn child is something unexpected and sad for each family. It is painful to see how people wait for a healthy child to be born, but find out that their child has an injury due to someone’s mistake or negligence.
For example, your baby could have permanent ailments such as brain damage, cerebral palsy, erbs palsy and various other birth defects, all of which can permanently damage a child and leave them scarred for life. If this does happen to your child, you should take action because a birthing mistake may have taken away any chance your child had of a happy and healthy life. Immediate actions and decisions should be made. A birth injury attorney can help you to evaluate the situation. Although a birth injury attorney cannot restore your child to full health, he can actually provide a service that would enable you to receive compensation and could give your child a life that he or she would not otherwise have had. You can find a birth injury attorney via an internet search or through the Yellow Pages.
So what does birth injury attorneys do? A birth injury attorney will most probably meet with you to discuss your options and what they can do for you. They are also generally passionate about the rights of a child during and immediately after birth, considering prenatal and postnatal conditions of the child.

Contact an experienced birth injury attorney. They understand the complexities of birth injuries. A medical mistake can create many different issues, such as possible surgeries, a lifetime of care, persisting medical circumstances, and other concerns. There are several things to keep in mind. The first question you should ask of any potential representative is whether you actually have a case. Do your own research online first and gauge the birth injury attorneys response on this information. Trust is important in these sensitive issues.

Physicians and/or medical staff that fail to diagnose a problem, or respond to a medical situation improperly can end up costing hundreds of thousands of dollars for the family. A knowledgeable attorney will get to know the family so that they can convey your story to a jury. Birth injury attorneys have a network of medical experts to decide the cause, extent and prospects of a birth injury. They will be ready for trial working effectively for your family.

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Cerebral Palsy (CP) includes a group of non-progressive, non-contagious motor conditions that cause physical disability in human development primarily in the various areas of body movement. Cerebral palsy refers to a problem in the cerebrum, the main part of the brain. Of the many types of CP, none of them has a known cure. Usually, medical intervention is limited to the treatment and prevention of difficulties arising from CP’s effects. The financial cost for people with cerebral palsy in the United States is estimated to be $921,000 per individual which includes lost income, according to a 2003 study.
This birth injury is quite well known. It is not progressive (i.e., brain damage does not get worse), however, secondary conditions, such as muscle spasticity, can develop which may get better over time, get worse or remain the same. Also, it is not communicable. Cerebral palsy is not a disease, and should not be referred to as such. Although cerebral palsy is not curable, training and therapy can help improve function. Many promising therapies and treatments are currently being investigated. Much is to be discovered about this problem.
Still, there are a lot of things to consider. Unlike other diseases, cerebral palsy is not a disorder with a single cause. And while there is no specific clear-cut cause that has been determined to be responsible for cerebral palsy, the general consensus is that it is caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain (hypoxia), a severe lack of oxygen to the body (asphyxia), birth trauma, premature delivery, and central nervous system infections or certain infections in the mother before or during birth. It is hard to come up with one general cause, but still it is good to know at least the range of causes.
Then, there may be a totally different cause. Can medical malpractice cause cerebral palsy? Cerebral palsy may be linked to negligence or wrongdoing on the part of a doctor, nurse or other healthcare professional during childbirth or the treatment of a mother during pregnancy. If the real cause is medical malpractice, contact a cerebral palsy attorney with experience in such birth injury cases.

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There are many cases of malpractice resulting in birth injuries. Cerebral palsy is a major issue in medical malpractice cases concerning these birth injuries. This condition results from a lack of oxygen to the brain during childbirth and is one of the most severe birth injuries that an infant can incur. It is clear that a doctor has an obligation to patients to provide a standard level of treatment and care. During the treatment of a pregnant woman–during childbirth and after childbirth–this is absolutely crucial to an infant’s health. Cerebral palsy may not be diagnosed immediately and can have lasting consequences to the baby and the family, as they will face a lifetime of medical treatment and care.
cerebral palsy attorneys can help you if your child is suffering from cerebral palsy due to a delivery mistake. Every person should be responsible for any actions which make others suffer. Even if you are not certain whether negligence led to your child’s disorder, cerebral palsy attorneys can work with medical experts and use their extensive medical knowledge and experience to thoroughly evaluate your case and the circumstances of the birth in order to determine whether negligence occurred and how to prove this.
By taking legal action and working with cerebral palsy attorneys, you can hold the doctor, nurse or hospital responsible and, therefore, collect monetary compensation to pay for medical bills and continued medical treatment. This can make all the difference in your child’s ability to cope with cerebral palsy and lead as normal a life as possible. There are several medical malpractice cases in delivering a baby:
-Failure to perform a cesarean section in a timely manner.
-Failure to diagnose infection in the mother during childbirth.
-Improper use of vacuum or forceps in an instrumental delivery.
-Failure to properly monitor fetal heart rate and respond accordingly.
-Failure to treat seizures following delivery.
-Failure to recognize and handle a prolapsed umbilical cord.
-Leaving the child in the birth canal for too long.
-Failure to perform a cesarean section when it should have been planned for the well-being of the mother and baby.

Voices from the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, a new documentary film series produced by the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in collaboration with Outsiders Films Inc., focuses the spotlight on men who have left their mark on Canada’s aviation history.

Eight aviators were interviewed over a 72-hour period amongst the planes and artifacts housed in the Museum, and that were so much a part of their lives. The interviews are made available online as  YouTube clips, and these videos are enhanced with photographs and memorabilia from the personal collections of the aviators interviewed, and from the Museum’s archive.

To learn more about aviation in Canada and the collections of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, be sure to browse their collection of Research Papers online.

Is your museum in need of qualified young workers? The Young Canada Works (YCW) Program can help you. This program provides museums with funding to hire recent college or university graduates.

CHIN members that are working on projects or research that will be made available on one of the CHIN websites (Virtualmuseum.ca or the Professional Exchange), are eligible under this program.  Examples of eligible projects include: working on a Community Memories exhibit or Virtual Museum of Canada exhibit, and assisting with contributions to Artefacts Canada.

Please consult the YCW website for current information on the program, including the 2011-12 YCW Employer Guide, application procedures, and the employer and intern eligibility criteria.

CHIN is accepting applications submitted online until March 29, 2011.

For further information, contact Ern Bieman, Heritage Information Analyst, CHIN, at 819-934-5005, or by e-mail: Ern.Bieman@pch.gc.ca.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is using emerging technologies to expand the reach of their ‘Picasso:  Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris’ show. The Museum has developed a campaign with the Martin Agency that allows Picasso fans to see information about the exhibition from a distance, using Facebook, QR codes and Layar.

 Interesting technologies include a portrait of Picasso made entirely of QR codes that, when scanned, sends the visitor to a landing page featuring Picasso’s work. Other elements include a QR code in a storefront in Philadelphia that enables smartphones to display Picasso’s artwork inside the store space, and geo-coordinates in New York, Richmond, and D.C. that can be activated using the Layar browser, causing images from Picasso’s collection to appear on surrounding buildings.

Another proof that museums continue to use technology in innovative ways to reach users beyond their museum walls.

We invite you to read the new issue of the Journal of Culture and Local Governance. The double-issue is focused on the topic of  “Culture and Sustainable Communities.”  The whole publication is available for free download, in both English and French.

The volume represents the most recent collections of writings on the topic of culture and sustainability.

The wide-spread shift to a sustainability paradigm for city planning makes this an important point in time to explore the integration of cultural considerations into broader sustainability policy and planning initiatives and the alignment of cultural planning with community sustainability approaches and goals.

The special issue is intended to provide food for thought and, perhaps, guidance for the many communities throughout the world who are currently grappling with the challenge of integrating culture into community sustainability planning.

Read the Journal to find all articles available in both English and French.

The International Council of Museums’ International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) has published a brochure entitled “Key Concepts of Museology.” The publication is available online in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Chinese) and contains a preview of the complete Dictionary of Museology, developed to allow museum professionals the world over to share a common language.

 The result of long years of research, the complete Dictionary of Museology is developed under the supervision of André Desvallées and François Mairesse. Yves Bergeron, Director of Graduate Studies in Museology at the Université du Québec à Montréal, also participates in the development of this book.