Understanding If and How Cooling Has Changed Birth Injury Litigation
Gary L. Riveles
Senior Partner
MacNeill, O’Neill & Riveles, LLC (Cedar Knolls, NJ)
Warren Rosenfeld, MD
Chair, Pediatrics
South Nassau Communities Hospital (Oceanside, N.Y.)
- Determining whether cooling is an admission of HIE with far fewer and less severe criteria than ACOG
- How does cooling affect plaintiff’s attorneys early filing of a suit as damages may not be accurately evaluated until age 7 or later?
- What is the significance of a negative MRI following cooling and will it change with time if there was HIE?
- Determining the effect of cooling on motor and intellectual function
