Emergency Sepsis Symptoms Missed
World Sepsis Day takes place this year on 13th September. Once again, the opportunity is grasped to emphasise the destruction and devastation which is caused globally by this life-threatening condition, and to highlight the need for greater awareness to ensure early diagnosis and intervention.
Early intervention can save lives.
When medical professionals miss the signs and symptoms of sepsis, the life of the patient is at risk.
In the UK, the Sepsis Trust calculates that approximately 5 people die every hour from sepsis.
Even where the patient survives, their quality of life may be severely undermined. Long-term ill health, breathlessness, fatigue, cognitive issues, and limb loss are just a few of the disabling and debilitating consequences of sepsis.
Suspecting sepsis
Whether in the GP surgery, during a home visit or in hospital, it is essential that suspected signs of sepsis prompt immediate action by medical professionals.
Sepsis symptoms
- Slurred speech or confusion
- Extreme shivering, muscle pain or fever
- Not passing urine
- Severe breathlessness
- Feeling extremely unwell
- Mottled skin
Where a patient assessment suggests sepsis, medical intervention should commence within one hour. Such is the emergency nature of this appalling illness.
Although the young and the elderly are at greatest risk of sepsis, this life-changing illness can affect anyone. Where failings by medical professionals cause a delay in diagnosis and treatment, it may be appropriate to claim compensation for the wide-ranging impact which sepsis can cause.
A successful compensation claim will address the patient's long-term symptoms and associated financial losses insofar as they have been caused by negligent medical care.
For example, if a medical professional fails to refer a patient for specialist intervention because they have missed the red flag symptoms of this terrible illness, the impact of those symptoms which the patient suffers which they would not have suffered with earlier intervention, will be incorporated into a claim.
This could include a loss of earnings, both past and future, the costs of care and equipment and any household alterations necessitated by the patients symptoms.
Speak to a legal specialist
Compensation claims for sepsis negligence are extremely complex both in terms of identifying when negligence may have occurred as well as in identifying the myriad of ways in which the patient's life has been affected and the financial implications.
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