A & E medical negligence
Recent news
09 September 2010
Compensation for injuries received whilst being treated for a heart attack in hospital
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09 September 2010
Hospital's failure to diagnose mothers' ruptured abdominal scar led to baby's death
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09 September 2010
Erb's palsy claim - £280k compensation for 10 year old boy
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Recent cases
Delay in diagnosis of detached retina left woman with 70% loss of vision
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£85k compensation - negligent hysterectomy recommendation
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Negligent MRSA contraction at NHS Hospital - £25k compensation
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Accident and Emergency medicine involves a very wise spectrum of diagnosis and treatment.
The most common potential medical negligence associated with A & E treatment involve missed fractures, missed severed nerves or tendons and failures to diagnose very serious conditions such as heart attack where a patient attends A & E with chest pains, is discharged without diagnosis and subsequently dies shortly after.
Other severe problems involve the failure to diagnose a head injury, causes of abdominal pain, severe infection or severe headache which can be due to a subarachnoid haemorrhage.
Children constitute 20% of the work of most A & E Departments and their diagnosis and treatment involves special skills that can be found wanting.
