Addressing Disability and Necrotising Fasciitis Medical Negligence
Tackling the shocking disability which necrotising fasciitis can cause can be made easier, where appropriate, with a successful claim for compensation.
Devastating soft-tissue infection
A necrotising fasciitis infection can leave the patient suffering severe and permanent disability. This destructive and fast-moving infection destroys all tissue in its path and requires extensive tissue removal in order to prevent further spread. The combination of the ravages of the illness and its surgical treatment can utterly undermine an individual's physical integrity and their psychological well-being.
Although frequently associated with the limbs or the abdominal or perineal regions, necrotising fasciitis can occur elsewhere in the body. The tissue damage which it causes can restrict a person's dexterity or mobility, damage their organs, require a life-changing amputation; or even cause the death of the patient.
The patient, when their immediate infection is resolved, has to face a future which may looks fundamentally different to what they had imagined.
Their ability to walk may be undermined. Their ability to work, to carry out daily chores and engage in many of the activities of their earlier may all now be denied them.
They may have become, to some degree, dependent on care or the use of specialist equipment in order to manage their symptoms and physical and psychological damage.
Negligent medical care of necrotising fasciitis
Occasionally, a poor outcome from a necrotising fasciitis infection is influenced adversely by delayed or negligent medical care. Clearly, timing is crucial in the medical management of this appalling and life-threatening illness and, if medical delays have caused the patient to suffer unnecessarily, it may be appropriate to make a claim for compensation.
A successful claim will address the impact of the negligence on the patient's quality of life as well as recognising their pain and suffering.
For instance, one of the biggest difficulties may arise if the patient is now restricted in their ability to work, suffering a significant loss of earnings as a result. Where appropriate, and insofar as it has been caused by the medical negligence, this financial loss would be included in a claim, taking account of both past and future losses. Where personal care support is required or specialist treatment, the associated costs could also be included in a claim.
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Glynns Solicitors are specialists in medical negligence law and have a wealth of experience in complex, high-value necrotising fasciitis claims.
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