Cauda Equina Syndrome Compensation for Medical Negligence
If you or a loved one have suffered negligent medical care of compression of the cauda equina nerves, leaving you with utterly life-changing symptoms and disabilities, speak to a medical negligence legal specialist about how to make a claim for compensation.
Compensation claims and cauda equina syndrome
A patient who is left with unnecessary and debilitating symptoms due to negligent medical care, is legally entitled to make a claim for compensation for the impact.
In the case of cauda equina syndrome, the impact can be devastating, leaving the patient with double incontinence, loss of mobility and loss of sexual function.
A successful compensation claim would incorporate, where appropriate, the financial losses caused by these symptoms. This can be considerable as it may include a loss of income where your unanticipated symptoms have reduced your capacity to work or adversely affected the type of work you are able to manage and, therefore, the amount which you are able to earn.
Managing your symptoms may require adaptations to your home to be carried out as well as requiring specialist equipment or treatment. The costs of this would be included in your claim insofar as they have been caused by the negligent medical care.
Negligent medical care and cauda equina syndrome
Time is crucial in the diagnosis and treatment of cauda equina compression. Negligence often relates to actions, or a failure to act, which causes a delay and thereby allows the patient's condition to worsen.
Failings by medical professionals which may cause an unnecessary delay would include a failure to examine the patient, a failure to recognise the possible implications of the patient's symptoms, a failure to make a timely referral for an MRI scan as well as a failure to provide the patient with red flag advice about deteriorating symptoms.
How to make a claim
Compensation claims for cauda equina syndrome are extremely complicated so your first step is to talk to a specialist medical negligence solicitor.
They will ask for details about what has happened to you and, if it seems that you may indeed have a claim, they will obtain copies of your medical records in order to analyse the quality of your care.
Don't delay in making contact as this process can be time-consuming and there is a three year deadline within which your claim must be issued with a court.
Free legal advice
Glynns Solicitors is a dedicated medical negligence legal practice with a team of specialist solicitors and many years' experience in pursuing high-value cauda equina syndrome claims.
Contact us today to talk to a solicitor, free of charge, about the possibility of making a claim for compensation.
We can offer No Win No Fee funding for medical negligence claims which we will discuss with you during your free initial telephone discussion.
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