How a Successful Claim Can Help to Manage the Impact of Cauda Equina Negligence
A delay in the diagnosis and treatment of cauda equina syndrome can leave the patient with permanent disability. Here's how a successful claim for compensation can help to address some of the issues caused by this appalling condition's debilitating symptoms.
Medical negligence and cauda equina syndrome
Cauda equina syndrome is a potentially debilitating lower body condition resulting from compression of the nerves. Time is of the essence in both diagnosis and surgery and, where medical professionals are found to have caused an unnecessary delay, the patient may suffer a poor outcome indeed. It may also justify a claim for compensation.
Loss of mobility
Many people with cauda equina syndrome find that they now struggle to mobilise. Unfortunately, this can not only undermine the extent of their activities and confidence out of the home but can compromise their ability to navigate around safely and effectively within their own home.
If adaptations are needed to make the patient's home more readily accessible, the costs of these adaptations or associated equipment can be incorporated into a successful claim insofar as the problems are found to have been caused by the impact of the medical negligence.
Occasionally, the impact and extent of disability is of such severity that the individual's home is no longer appropriate for them to live in and a successful claim can address the need for a more suitable property.
Bladder and bowel dysfunction
Loss of bowel and bladder control can often present significant difficulties in the workplace and many of our clients have found not only that they now struggle to work full-time but that they are severely restricted in the nature of the work they are able to access. Areas of employment such as hospitality, education, retail and healthcare may be denied them.
Where such an outcome means that the individual affected has to make a fundamental change to their employment, resulting in a significant loss of income, a successful compensation claim will incorporate the relevant financial losses, both past and future.
Speak to a legal specialist
Success in a medical negligence compensation claim requires the expertise and experience of a lawyer who specialises in this complex area of law. They will offer the skills to undertake a thorough investigation into the quality of the patient's medical care as well as making a meticulous assessment of the impact of any negligence and the losses associated with this.
Contact Glynns Solicitors, specialists in medical negligence law, to talk to a solicitor, free of charge, about the possibility of making a claim.
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