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Clinical and Medical Negligence: Accident and Emergency cases

Expert Help with Accident and Emergency Negligence Claims

Accident and Emergency doctors have to diagnose and treat a wide variety of conditions quickly and often under pressure. It is an essential NHS service and in most cases, it is carried out efficiently and without error.

 

Sometimes however, negligence does occur: misdiagnosis or poor managment and care in A&E can lead to injury, illness or accident. Our experienced Clinical and Medical Negligence Solicitors have assisted many clients who have been affected by mistakes made in hospital Emergency Departments.

 

If you have suffered as a result of what you believe to be negligent treatment in a hospital Accident and Emergency department, our Medical Negligence solicitors will work hard to find out exactly what happened. If we can prove that you have suffered as a result of medical negligence, we may be able to help you recover appropriate compensation. Contact us to arrange your free consultation: Call 01924 882000, or email clinical.negligence@switalskis.com.

 

How Medical Negligence can happen in Accident and Emergency cases:

Where doctors fail to complete a thorough examination, to record a thorough history of a patient's injury or condition, to ensure x-rays or an appropriate scan is completed, or to correcly refer a patient to an appropriate specialist, then they may be negligent in carrying out their duty.

 

Some of the Accident and Emergency medical negligence issues which have arisen in the past are:

  • Missed wrist fractures due to lack of follow-up x-ray, which untreated could lead to bone death or osteoarthritis;
  • Undetected nerve damage in hands or wrists due to incorrect examination techniques;
  • Missed cervical spine fractures or dislocation due to an incorrectly carried out xray, which if untreated could result in paralysis;
  • Undetected glass or other foreign objects in the body due to lack of follow-up x-rays when one or more foreign objects have been removed;
  • Undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy (where a fertilised egg develops outside the womb - usually in the fallopian tube), which untreated has fatal consequences.
  • Eye injuries which are exacerbated by incorrect management in the A&E department, or failure to refer the patient to an opthalmologist
  • Delay in diagnosis of a head or brain injury, due to attention being focused on another more obvious injury. For example, a subarachnoid haemorrhage (bleeding into the space between the layers covering the brain), which without treatment could result in serious or fatal consequences.