How to Make a Claim for Delayed Necrotising Fasciitis Care
Making a claim for compensation for negligent medical care of necrotising fasciitis can help the patient address the difficulties which this devastating infection can cause.
Why does a delay matter?
Necrotising fasciitis is a medical emergency. The obvious implication of that description is that a delay in medical care would be a significant factor in the patient's long-term outcome. And this is generally the case.
Not only does this appalling soft-tissue infection travel swiftly through the patient's body but it also causes devastating damage to the body as it spreads. Diagnosis and surgical treatment are therefore required at the earliest possible moment.
A delay will give the bacteria causing the damage more time to infect a greater area of tissue, causing increasing levels of deformity and long-term disability.
If medical professionals are considered to be responsible for the delay in medical care, and therefore responsible for the increased disability of the patient, it may be possible to make a claim for compensation.
Negligent medical care of a necrotising fasciitis infection
Medical professionals, whether in primary or secondary care, may be regarded as negligent in the following circumstances:
- A failure to carry out a thorough assessment and examination of the patient
- A failure to recognise that the patient's symptoms (possibly pain, swelling, tenderness and discolouration of the skin) may be indicative of a severe soft-tissue infection
- A failure to seek specialist advice in case of uncertainty
- A failure to make a timely referral for specialist intervention
- A delay in initiating treatment
How to Make a Claim
Compensation claims for medical negligence can be extremely complex, necrotising fasciitis negligence being a very good example of this. The varying ways in which it can affect a patient can make the process of analysing the quality of care and the long-term impact of the infection on the patient a complicated task, requiring the attention of the best medical experts.
If you are thinking that you may be entitled to make a claim, your first step is to talk to a specialist medical negligence solicitor who will be able to access a copy of your medical records and engage medical experts to assess the quality of your medical care.
Try to make contact at the earliest moment as these claims are associated with a three-year deadline, within which time the investigation in to the quality of your care and its impact on you needs to be carried out.
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Glynns Solicitors are specialists in medical negligence law with extensive experience of high-value necrotising fasciitis claims.
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