Healthcare Delays and Compensation for Necrotising Fasciitis Disability
If medical professionals fail in their care of a patient with the appalling soft-tissue infection necrotising fasciitis, it may be possible to make a claim for compensation.
The shock of necrotising fasciitis
Necrotising fasciitis is a medical emergency.
This is not surprising, given that this shocking soft-tissue infection can spread rapidly through the body's tissue, causing irreparable decay as it goes and ultimately threatening the life of the patient.
Urgent diagnosis at the earliest possible moment and the prompt initiation of treatment in the form of antibiotics and surgical removal of all infected tissue is essential if the patient is to survive with the best physical and emotional outcome.
Even with the most knowledgeable and timely intervention, necrotising fasciitis can be a shocking and destructive experience, causing scarring and deformity.
Medical professionals may cause a delay by failing to carry out an examination, by failing to recognise the possible symptoms, by making a misdiagnosis and by failing to refer a patient urgently for specialist intervention.
Claiming compensation
Where delays allow time for the infection to spread, not only causing greater tissue decay but necessitating greater tissue removal, it may be appropriate to make a claim for compensation.
Where medical negligence is concerned, a successful compensation claim addresses the financial losses and additional costs which the negligence has caused the patient to suffer.
Where necrotising fasciitis is concerned, these losses can be considerable.
For example, the patient may now struggle to work and therefore suffer a long-term loss of income. These financial losses would be included in a claim.
They may be experiencing disability of some degree. Such is the severity of necrotising fasciitis that it sometimes requires the surgical removal of a limb in order to halt the spread of the infection. If this situation means that the patient requires some household or personal support, the associated costs would be included in a claim.
Speak to a legal specialist
Compensation claims for necrotising fasciitis are extremely complex both in terms of analysing the quality of the patient's medical care, and in terms of assessing the myriad of ways in which the patient's life has been affected and the associated financial losses.
If you are going to make a claim, it is essential that you use a specialist medical negligence solicitor.
Glynns Solicitors is a dedicated medical negligence legal practice with a wealth of expertise in necrotising fasciitis claims.
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