Failure To Identify Cardiac Condition
If medical practitioners failed to diagnose your heart condition, despite you seeking help for symptoms, there may have been a substandard level of care.
If you then went on to suffer serious complications, such as a heart attack or stroke, you could be entitled to pursue a claim against those at fault.
For more information on claiming compensation for your cardiac condition, please get in touch with us at Glynns Solicitors.
Identifying a cardiac condition
The diagnosis of cardiac conditions often begin when a patient seeks medical help for chest pain. This should prompt the treating nurse or doctor to perform an electrocardiogram (ECG).
However, an ECG is a diagnostically limited test. Therefore even if the ECG result is normal, the patient should be asked for a thorough history before any conclusions are made. The clinician should then consider the patient's symptoms, lifestyle and ECG reading before deciding what action to take.
If there is any indication that a cardiac condition is present, the patient must be referred for further tests.
Failure to diagnose cardiac condition
It is very important that a cardiac condition is diagnosed in the early stages because it will ensure the patient is given effective treatment. This will help to prevent serious complications occurring in the future.
But if a cardiac condition is missed, the patient could go on to suffer a heart attack or stroke. Such complications can be fatal, and even if they are non-fatal they can be life-changing.
It may be a matter of years in between a patient seeking medical help and a patient suffering such complications. Nevertheless, the complications could have been avoided, had their condition been detected at an earlier stage.
Making a claim
Doctors need to assess a patient's symptoms, take a thorough history and analyse ECG tests in order to make an accurate assessment. If these steps are not taken, meaning an acute coronary condition is overlooked, there will be a breach of duty.
If medical practitioners miss the opportunity to diagnose an acute coronary syndrome, leading to complications that would otherwise have been avoided, there could be a case of medical negligence.
If your or your loved one has suffered in a similar way, please get in touch with us to discuss what action you can take. We specialise in medical negligence claims and will be able to advise you further. All initial enquiries are free of charge.
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