Compensation for Joint Replacement Surgery Negligence
If negligent joint replacement surgery has left you or a loved one facing a lifetime of disability, contact Glynns Solicitors to discuss the possibility of making a claim for compensation.
Joint replacements in the UK
Joint replacement surgery is one of the most common surgical procedures in the UK. Over 90,000 hip replacement operations and over 70,000 knee replacement procedures take place in England and Wales every year.
Shoulder, ankle and elbow replacements also take place but they are less common than either hip or knee replacement surgery.
For the vast majority of patients, they are highly-successful operations, freeing patients from pain and disability. Occasionally, however, a joint replacement procedure can cause severe and, in some cases, life-threatening complications.
Where such an outcome is considered to have been due to the negligence of the medical professionals involved, it may be appropriate to make a claim for compensation.
Types of joint replacement surgery negligence
Joint replacement complications which might be due to negligence include the following:
- Post-operative infection where a failure to provide prophylactic antibiotics or a failure to monitor a patient carefully after their operation leaves them with the long-term impact of a severe infection or sepsis
- Nerve injury, causing permanent disability such as loss of mobility or limb dexterity
- A failure to prevent or identify deep vein thrombosis, allowing the patient to develop a pulmonary embolism and the disabling effects of a stroke
- Surgery failure, leaving the patient disabled and requiring further surgery
Medical negligence causing such severe long-term problems can have a significant impact on an individual's quality of life. The patient may struggle to work, to mobilise or to remain independent. They may experience considerable loss of income or incur additional costs due to the effects of their illness or disability.
In these circumstances, the law entitles an individual to make a claim for compensation which will address issue of financial losses caused by the negligence.
Claiming Compensation
If you think that the on-going difficulties experienced by yourself or a loved one may be due to medical negligence, you need to get specialist legal advice as soon as possible.
Initiating a compensation claim must happen within three years of the alleged negligence so don't delay if you are considering making a claim.
Here at Glynns all our lawyers are medical negligence specialists so you can contact us, free-of-charge, confident in the knowledge that you will get the best advice.
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