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Hospital acquired infections, including MRSA
Many infections are a recognised risk of a medical procedure, rather than failures in technique. Nevertheless even if an infection could not have been avoided with standard techniques, and if patient consent to such risks has been properly obtained, once infections take hold, negligence can occur if they are not diagnosed and treated to an appropriate standard of care. In these situations, GPs, A&E departments or hospital staff may have been negligent.
The experience of our Clinical Negligence team at Blake Lapthorn solicitors includes compensation claims for hospital infections where there were failures to:
Other cases concern the failure to identify and treat infective conditions such as pneumonia, septicemia, meningitis, subdural abscess and bacterial endocarditis. Cases have been litigated where infection in a health care unit meant that it should not have been operating, or there have been breaches of health and safety regulations.
Generally speaking, it is not usually possible to bring a claim for contracting MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) in hospital as long as the NHS Trust has a suitable policy to deal with infection control, and the trust managers are not willfully turning a blind eye to failures to follow those procedures. It is rare for a case to be successfully pursued on these grounds alone.
However, it is possible to pursue claims for failures to diagnose and appropriately treat an MRSA infection. If left untreated, or if wrongly treated, active MRSA infection (as opposed to colonisation with MRSA, which does not usually require treatment) can have devastating consequences for patients.
The Clinical Negligence team at Blake Lapthorn solicitors are experienced in investigating MRSA claims for which we call on the expertise of microbiologists and infection control experts, as well as experts from other medical fields. If you have been unfortunate enough to suffer very long term effects from an MRSA infection due to negligent treatment, we shall claim for all your financial losses to be taken into account when making your compensation claim.
Telephone us on 0844 620 6200
Email us at blclaims@bllaw.co.uk
The experience of our Clinical Negligence team at Blake Lapthorn solicitors includes compensation claims for hospital infections where there were failures to:
- monitor the patient’s condition properly following surgery
- identify and act upon signs of infection - either: systemic signs of increased temperature, raised pulse rate and/or low blood pressure; or localised signs such as pain, swelling, discharge and/or redness
- diagnose whether wound infections are deep, affecting other tissues, or superficial
- commence sufficiently aggressive antibiotic treatment within a reasonable timescale
- continue antibiotics for long enough
- undertake surgical intervention by washout, debridgement and /or removal of prostheses promptly
Other cases concern the failure to identify and treat infective conditions such as pneumonia, septicemia, meningitis, subdural abscess and bacterial endocarditis. Cases have been litigated where infection in a health care unit meant that it should not have been operating, or there have been breaches of health and safety regulations.
MRSA infections
Generally speaking, it is not usually possible to bring a claim for contracting MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) in hospital as long as the NHS Trust has a suitable policy to deal with infection control, and the trust managers are not willfully turning a blind eye to failures to follow those procedures. It is rare for a case to be successfully pursued on these grounds alone.
However, it is possible to pursue claims for failures to diagnose and appropriately treat an MRSA infection. If left untreated, or if wrongly treated, active MRSA infection (as opposed to colonisation with MRSA, which does not usually require treatment) can have devastating consequences for patients.
The Clinical Negligence team at Blake Lapthorn solicitors are experienced in investigating MRSA claims for which we call on the expertise of microbiologists and infection control experts, as well as experts from other medical fields. If you have been unfortunate enough to suffer very long term effects from an MRSA infection due to negligent treatment, we shall claim for all your financial losses to be taken into account when making your compensation claim.
Contact the Clinical Negligence team
Telephone us on 0844 620 6200
Email us at blclaims@bllaw.co.uk
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