In this webinar, Dr Ujwal Kariholu explores where neonatal care breaks down, and how these failures translate into litigation risk.

About the Speaker

Dr Ujwal Kariholu is a Consultant Neonatologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, specialising in the care of critically unwell newborns.

• Medico-legal expert witness since 2018
• Regularly instructed in birth injury and neonatal brain injury claims
• Experienced in breach, causation, and prognosis reporting
• Extensive clinical background in NICU care

Key Themes from the Webinar

This session focuses on where neonatal care most commonly fails - and how those failures are assessed in a medico-legal context.

Key insights include:

• Delayed recognition of foetal compromise remains a leading cause of severe birth injury claims
• Minutes matter in neonatal resuscitation and decision-making
• Documentation gaps (e.g. missing cord gases or placental data) can significantly weaken or complicate causation arguments
• Failures in communication and consent are often just as important as clinical errors in driving claims
• Cooling treatment timing (within 6 hours) is critical in hypoxic brain injury cases

Dr Kariholu also highlights that many claims are driven not purely by clinical error, but by process failures, poor communication, and perceived lack of transparency.

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