{"id":536,"date":"2015-07-04T08:57:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T07:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=536"},"modified":"2021-07-13T12:02:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T11:02:51","slug":"sepsis-death-care-was-inadequate-says-ombudsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/sepsis-death-care-was-inadequate-says-ombudsman\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepsis Death Care Was \u2018Inadequate\u2019, Says Ombudsman"},"content":{"rendered":"

An ombudsman has found the care given to a woman who died of sepsis was inadequate.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 79 year old woman, known only as Mrs A, developed sepsis after suffering a cardiac arrest. <\/span><\/p>\n

She was admitted to Cardiff\u2019s University Hospital of Wales but was not seen by a doctor for three hours, despite guidelines stating she should have been seen in 10 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

There was also a six hour delay in administering antibiotics, which is the primary treatment for sepsis.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sadly the condition was too far advanced by that stage and the patient died in March 2014, three weeks after being admitted. <\/span><\/p>\n

An investigation by ombudsman Nick Bennet found the hospital did not follow guidelines on sepsis care, resulting in delays in the diagnosis and treatment of her condition.<\/span><\/p>\n

Overall he concluded the care provided by the hospital was \u201cinadequate\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has been ordered to pay the bereaved family compensation and apologise for the failings. <\/span><\/p>\n

The board\u2019s executive nurse director Ruth Walker said: \u201cthe health board recognises the risks posed by sepsis and we have been working hard to raise awareness amongst all staff of the symptoms and steps to help save lives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will continue to build on these efforts and share this sad story with all our colleagues to help avoid it happening again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Delayed sepsis treatment<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening condition which is triggered by an infection. It must be treated quickly if the patient is to survive.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately this does not always happen, with the NHS estimating that there are 37,000 sepsis deaths in the UK every year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The UK Sepsis Trust believes that 12,500 of these deaths could have been prevented with better medical care.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you or your loved one has been affected by substandard sepsis care, you need to talk to a solicitor about whether you could be entitled to claim compensation.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information on sepsis claims, please contact us at Glynns Solicitors. <\/span><\/p>\n

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An ombudsman has found the care given to a woman who died of sepsis was inadequate. The 79 year old woman, known only as Mrs A, developed sepsis after suffering a cardiac arrest. She was admitted to Cardiff\u2019s University Hospital of Wales but was not seen by a doctor for three hours, despite guidelines stating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[558,330,561,86,559,560],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sepsis-2","tag-delayed-sepsis-treatment","tag-sepsis-care","tag-sepsis-claims","tag-sepsis-deaths","tag-sepsis-diagnosis","tag-uk-sepsis-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}