Compensating Disability After Necrotising Fasciitis Medical Negligence
Life-changing disability due to negligent medical care of a soft-tissue infection may justify a claim for compensation.
The destructive nature of necrotising fasciitis
It is shocking that an infection can leave the patient with permanent disability but such is the virulence of a necrotising fasciitis infection that this can sometimes be the case.
To give one example, this appalling infection often commences in one of the limbs. In order to halt the further spread of this rapidly-moving infection, it is sometimes necessary for a full or partial limb to be amputated. The result can, clearly, be life-changing. The entire course and nature of an individual's life can be altered by the sudden and unexpected loss of a limb.
It may no longer be possible to work. A former career may be denied to the patient and they may suffer a significant loss of income, and self-esteem, as a result.
They may require personal care and they may require costly equipment and modifications to their home in order to be able to function effectively day after day.
Medical negligence and necrotising fasciitis
It is also that case that, sometimes, this appalling outcome could have been avoided with more competent, knowledgeable and timely medical care. If the symptoms of this shocking infection had been recognised or suspected at an earlier stage, debridement surgery to remove the infection could have saved the limb.
If a medical professional is regarded as having failed in their response to the patient's signs and symptoms of infection, thereby facilitating a delay which proves costly to the patient's physical integrity, it may be possible to claim compensation for the consequences.
Examples of negligence in relation to this destructive infection would include a failure to examine, a failure to recognise or suspect the symptoms of necrotising fasciitis and a delay in making a referral or initiating surgery.
Claiming compensation
A successful compensation claim for medical negligence will address the problems caused by the impact of the negligence.
If the patient is suffering unexpected costs which would not have been the case but for the negligence, such as specialist equipment costs, these costs would be included in the a claim.
If the patient is experiencing a significant reduction in income because they now struggle to work, their loss of income, both past and future, would be included in the claim insofar as it has been caused by the negligence.
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