The Lawyer's Perspective on the Use of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

See Ziskind M.C. , Basic Physics of Ultrasound, in The Principles and Practice of Ultrasonography in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2d ed. ( Sanders R.C. and James A.E. , eds.) (Appleton-Century-Crofts, N.Y., 1980), 1.

Vinocur B. , Questions Chase Answers about Ultrasound's Safety, Diagnostic Imaging 411:62 (1982).

Sanders R.C. , Update on Legal Complications, Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine 3(9):R:103 (1984).

Sanders R.C. , talk delivered at the September 1984 meeting of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri.

Dorland's Medical Dictionary, 26th ed. (W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1981), at 59.

McArdle C.R. , The Use of Ultrasound in Evaluating Problems and Complications of Genetic Amniocentesis, Journal of Clinical Ultrasound 11:427 (1983).

Callen P. , Ultrasonography in Obstetrics and Gynecology (W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1983), at 113–15.

Id.

Dorland's Medical Dictionary, supra note 5, at 1063.

Sanders , supra note 4.

Dorland's Medical Dictionary, supra note 5, at 1023.

Callen , supra note 7, at 113–15.

Franklin M.A. , Injuries and Remedies, 2d ed. (Foundation Press, Mineola, N.Y., 1979), at 29.

Kimball v. Scors, 399 N.Y.S.2d 350 (App. Div. 1977).

Id. at 351.

King J.H. , The Law of Medical Malpractice (West Publishing Co., St. Paul., 1977), at 19.

Wilcox v. Salt Lake City Corp., 484 P. 2d 1200 (Utah 1971).

Rogers v. Horvath, 237 N.W.2d 595 (Mich. Ct. App. 1977).

Dorland's Medical Dictionary, supra note 5, at 4.

Coleman v. Garrison, 327 A.2d 757, 761–62 (Del. Super. 1974); aff'd 349 A.2d 8 (Del. 1975).

Berman v. Allen, 404 A.2d 8, 12 (N.J. Sup. Ct. 1979), citing Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co., 282 U.S. 555, 563 (1931).

Troppi v. Scarf, 187 N.W.2d 511, 521 (Mich. Ct. App. 1971).

Terrell v. Garcia, 496 S.W.2d 124, 127 (Tex. Civ. App. 1973); cert. denied 415 U.S. 927 (1974).

Miller v. Duhart, 637 S.W.2d 183, 186 (Mo. Ct. App. 1982).

Hickman v. Myers, 632 S.W.2d 869, 870 (Tex. Ct. App. 1982).

American Law Institute, Restatement (Second) of Torts (American Law Institute Publishers, St. Paul, 1979), §920.

Morris v. Frudenfeld, 185 Cal. Rptr. 76, 83 (Cal. App. 1982).

Troppi, supra note 22, at 521.

Dumer v. St. Michael's Hospital, 233 N.W.2d 372 (Wis. 1975).

LaPoint v. Shirley, 409 F. Supp. 118, 121 (W.D. Tex. 1976).

Thompson C.S. Sanbar S.S. , Wrongful Conception or Wrongful Pregnancy, Legal Aspects of Medical Practice 114:1 (April 1983).

Curlender v. Bio-Science Labs, 165 Cal. Rptr. 477 (Cal. App. 1980).

Id. at 489.

Id.

Turpin v. Sortini, 643 P. 2d 954 (Cal. App. 1982).

Speck v. Feingold, 408 A.2d 496 (Pa. Super. 1979).

Procanik v. Cillo, 478 A.2d 755 (N.J. 1984); Harbeson v. Parke-Davis, Inc., 656 P. 2d 483 (Wash. 1983).

Johnson B.A. , An Overview of Informed Consent: Majority and Minority Rules, in Legal Medicine with Special Reference to Diagnostic Imaging ( James A.E. , ed.) (Urban and Schwarzenberg, Baltimore, 1980), 281, 290–91.

Prosser and Keeton on the Law of Torts, 5th ed. (ed. Keeton W.P. ) (West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1984), 940–42.

Dietrich v. Inhabitants of Northampton, 138 Mass. 14, 17 (1884). See also McClelland R.M. , The Necessity of Granting a Cause of Action to an Unborn Viable Fetus under the Pennsylvania Wrongful Death and Survival Acts, Duquesne Law Review 21:1017 (1983).

Verkennes v. Corniea, 38 N.W.2d 838 (Minn. 1949). (An unborn child failed to survive birth because of negligence during the delivery.)

Rainey v. Horn, 72 So.2d 434, 435 (Miss. 1954). (A child was born dead after a full-term pregnancy, allegedly as a result of negligence during the delivery.)

Scott v. Kopp, 431 A.2d 959 (Pa. 1981). (The eight-month-pregnant plaintiff was injured in a head-on collision when the defendant's automobile crossed the center of the highway.)

Bundy A.L. James A.E. , How Wrongful Death Actions May Arise, Contemporary OB/GYN (May 1984).

See Childres R. Johnson W.F. , Equity, Restitution and Damages, 2d ed. (Foundation Press, Mineola, N.Y., 1974), 611.

Miller v. Highlands Insurance Co., 336 S.2d 636, 641 (Fla. Ct. App. 1976); reversed on appeal, 348 S.2d 303 (1977).

State ex rel Hardin v. Sanders, 538 S.W.2d 336 (Mo. 1976); expressly overruled in O'Grady v. Brown, 654 S.W.2d 904, 911 (Mo. 1983).

Southwick A.F. Hospital Liability: Two Theories Have Been Merged, Journal of Legal Medicine4(1):1, 18 (March 1983).