The document, filed in a New Brunswick court Thursday, for the first time names the nurse, who was fired from the Moncton hospital last month after an internal investigation found she administered unauthorized labour-inducing drugs to two mothers
A group of mothers who had emergency cesarean sections at a Moncton hospital after a nurse gave them oxytocin without permission have filed an application for a class action lawsuit.
They also allege the hospital “was aware that it performed an unusually high number of emergency c-sections and instrument-assisted deliveries.”Oxytocin is a drug used often before, during and after labour. It speeds up contractions but can have dangerous effects to both mother and baby if it is not used in a carefully monitored setting, according to the Institute for Safe Medicine Practices Canada.
Jayde Scott, the only named plaintiff in the lawsuit, was one of the mothers involved in the hospital investigation. The next morning, Ms. Scott was told by a doctor at the hospital that oxytocin had been inserted into her IV saline “via small puncture marks in the bag,” according to the court filing. “She was informed that the defendant nurse Ruest was responsible.”
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