Is meconium aspiration a medical accident?

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Meconium is a condition that can occur when every child is born. Some may be due to the carelessness of the medical staff, but there must be an accident. It can't happen without any reason. Some family members found that the baby has meconium inhalation after the situation, especially don't worry, so meconium inhalation is a medical accident?

Is meconium aspiration a medical accident?

The hospital has more than 90% of the responsibility. Fecal aspiration is a possible symptom of the newborn. However, the mortality rate is not very high due to timely detection and treatment. The reason why the hospital has the responsibility is that the family members of the newborn always reflect to the doctor that the child has dyspnea. But hospital staff did not pay attention, resulting in the death of the child, the general child was born, the hospital will ask a pediatrician to do some physical examination of the child. Mainly to see if there are multiple diseases of the newborn, so as to achieve early treatment.

There are great differences in the severity of children's disease, and those who inhale less may be asymptomatic at birth. Massive inhalation of meconium can cause fetal death or death shortly after birth. Most of the children had shortness of breath, dyspnea, cyanosis, nasal flapping, groaning, three concave sign, and increased anterior and posterior diameter of chest.

The two lungs often have snoring and rough moist rales. Later, middle and fine moist rales appeared. If the clinical symptoms suddenly worsen, pneumothorax should be suspected, the incidence rate is 20% to 50%, chest radiography can be diagnosed. Persistent pulmonary hypertension due to a large number of right to left shunt, in addition to causing severe cyanosis, can also appear heart failure such as cardiac enlargement, hepatomegaly.

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Is meconium aspiration a medical accident? Medical malpractice is not common nowadays, because medical staff are trained and responsible. But there is also a time of mistakes. I hope I can understand that parents should pay more attention to observe whether the child has any special circumstances after the birth of the child.