How Can I get Compensation for Necrotising Fasciitis Negligence?
If a patient suffers a worse outcome after negligent medical care than would have been the case with an appropriate level of care, they are legally entitled to claim compensation for the consequences of that negligence.
Necrotising fasciitis devastation
Where necrotising fasciitis is concerned, the consequences can be devastating, life-changing and extremely costly.
Necrotising fasciitis is a medical emergency for good reason. Although often associated with the limbs or abdomen, this appalling soft-tissue infection can develop in any art of the body and cause widespread tissue destruction. Moving swiftly through the body's connective tissue, it destroys all infected tissue and can ultimately bring about the death of the patient. In the course of its journey through the patient's body it can damage the bowel, the limb structure and require wide-ranging tissue removal in order to prevent it spreading further.
It is a truly horrifying infection.
Medical negligence in necrotising fasciitis
Prompt medical diagnosis and treatment are the key to the best possible outcome. A delay in attending medical services, a delay in diagnosis and a delay in surgery can allow tie for the infection to spread, further undermining the integrity of the body and necessitating further tissue debridement.
Negligent medical care can easily cause a delay in the medical management of this life-threatening illness and cause the patient to suffer a far worse outcome than should have been the case with competent and timely care.
Examples of negligent care could include the following:
- A failure of examination
- A failure to recognise or suspect that the patient's symptoms might be indicative of necrotising fasciitis
- A misdiagnosis of the patient's symptoms
- A delay in making a referral for specialist investigation
How to Get Compensation
The route to a successful compensation claim is with the support and expertise of a specialist solicitor.
Having listened to your account of what has occurred and the symptoms which you are suffering, a specialist solicitor will be able to obtain copies of your medical records. They will then have access to the best medical experts who will analyse the quality of your care and identify whether or not you have been the victim of negligence and, if so, what its effect on you has been.
Once negligence has been established, it is then possible to calculate the impact of the negligence on your health and quality of life and the financial problems which it has caused.
This could include any loss of earnings, both past and future which you have suffered as a result of your symptoms. It would also take account of any treatment, equipment or care which would might now require which would not have been the case with an acceptable quality of care.
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Glynns Solicitors is a dedicated medical negligence legal practice with extensive expertise in necrotising fasciitis claims.
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