{"id":609,"date":"2015-10-20T08:43:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T07:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=609"},"modified":"2015-10-09T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T14:45:40","slug":"boy-dies-of-sepsis-after-catalogue-of-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/boy-dies-of-sepsis-after-catalogue-of-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Dies Of Sepsis After Catalogue of Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">A six year old boy has died of sepsis after medics failed to recognise the condition, and failed to resuscitate him after they mistakenly believed he had a \u2018do not resuscitate order\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Jack Adcock was admitted to Leicester Royal Infirmary in 2011 with pneumonia. He had Down\u2019s syndrome and a heart condition<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">His condition seriously deteriorated when he developed sepsis, an inflammation triggered by infection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">It is alleged that the medical professionals caring for Jack failed to notice that his body was shutting down. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Criminal charges have been pressed and the trial is currently underway. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">At Nottingham Crown Court, Prosecutor Andrew Thomas said Jack\u2019s condition was not properly monitored, and that the signs of sepsis \u2013 including high levels of gas and lactate in the blood \u2013 were not acted upon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">He claimed that Jack\u2019s death was caused by serious neglect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Jack went on to suffer a cardiac arrest, but the doctor called off a resuscitation attempt because she believed he had a \u2018do not resuscitate order\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Resuscitation began a few minutes later after another clinician checked the notes and realised a mistake had been made. Sadly it was too late and Jack could not be saved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">The doctor in question denies manslaughter due to negligence, and two nurses deny manslaughter by gross negligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Blood poisoning death<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">If your loved one has died of sepsis or blood poisoning due to medical error, please get in touch with our solicitors to find out what action you can take.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A six year old boy has died of sepsis after medics failed to recognise the condition, and failed to resuscitate him after they mistakenly believed he had a \u2018do not resuscitate order\u2019. Jack Adcock was admitted to Leicester Royal Infirmary in 2011 with pneumonia. He had Down\u2019s syndrome and a heart condition His condition seriously [&hellip;]<\/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":[646,647,649,648,645],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sepsis-2","tag-blood-poisoning-death","tag-do-not-resuscitate-order","tag-manslaughter-by-negligence","tag-mistake-over-do-not-resuscitate","tag-sepsis-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","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=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}