Espírito Santo Opens Audit Into 6.5 kg Vaginal Birth With Severe Complications

Overview

• Sesa said the review of the August birth at Hospital São José in Colatina is underway and should conclude within 60 days.
• The mother reports she arrived with a cesarean referral, while the hospital says records show a planned normal delivery and a discharge coding error was corrected.
• The newborn reportedly weighed 6.5 kg and 55 cm, experienced five minutes without breathing, shoulder dislocation, and brachial plexus injury, and the mother had heavy hemorrhage requiring 55 stitches.
• The baby was intubated and spent 10 days in the neonatal ICU, and at nearly two months weighs about 10 kg with ongoing physiotherapy for the arm injury.
• The hospital cites a July 3 external ultrasound estimating 3.45 kg and says that exam guided care, noting the mother’s history of large babies and no documented contraindication to labor at admission.