Negligent Medical Care and Necrotising Fasciitis Compensation
Substandard medical care of a necrotising fasciitis can cause devastation in a person's life and justify a claim for compensation.
Caring for necrotising fasciitis
Efficient, knowledgeable and timely medical care of a necrotising fasciitis infection is crucial to the patient's long-term health and quality of life.
Substandard care can occur in a variety of ways which may cause a worse outcome than would have been the case with an acceptable level of care.
- Negligent medical care of a condition such as an abscess, whether in hospital or in the GP surgery, can allow a patient to develop the horrific soft-tissue infection, necrotising fasciitis. Once the relevant bacteria reach the deep soft tissue, a process of decay will begin which not only affects all the tissue it infects but which can also spread rapidly through the body's connective tissue.
- A failure of risk assessment or a failure to administer prophylactic antibiotics to an at-risk patient prior to surgery may allow necrotising fasciitis to develop in a wound. A surgical incision or a wound can provide bacteria with a portal of entry to the interior of the body where it can attack the soft tissue.
- A failure of diagnosis can also prove life-threatening. This appalling infection requires medical professionals to have the highest level of suspicion. Once necrotising fasciitis is suspected, investigation and surgery are a matter of emergency. Every hour of delay can cause the patient to suffer a worse outcome. Symptoms of intense pain, swelling, tenderness and redness or discolouration of the skin can suggest that the patient may be developing necrotising fasciitis and a failure to consider and investigate this possible diagnosis may prove life-changing or even fatal.
- A delay in initiating treatment in the form of debridement surgery can also cause the patient to suffer a worse outcome. This shocking illness can often require several debridement procedures before all infected tissue has been removed from the body and the sooner it is started, the better a patient's outcome is likely to be.
Making a claim for compensation
If you or a loved one are struggling with the shocking impact of necrotising fasciitis due to negligent medical care, contact Glynns Solicitors regarding the possibility of making a claim for compensation.
If you are facing significant financial losses, such as a loss of income, due to the effects of your negligent care, these losses could be incorporated into a successful claim, in so far as they have been caused by the substandard care.
Call us today to talk to a specialist medical negligence solicitor about the possibility of making a claim for compensation.
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