If your loved one has died after contracting necrotising fasciitis, you may be entitled to pursue a medical negligence claim on behalf of their estate. To find out more, you need to speak to a solicitor who specialises in this area of the law.
Necrotising fasciitis and medical mismanagement
Necrotising fasciitis is a rare bacterial infection, yet it leads to a disproportionately high number of medico-legal claims each year. This is because the condition is regularly mismanaged by medical practitioners, and this in turn can have devastating implications for the patient.
Indeed, necrotising fasciitis must be treated immediately or the tissue will become necrotic. Once this has happened, all the dead tissue must be surgically removed. In some patients, a delay in treatment will mean that an extensive area of tissue has died. Consequently a dangerous amount of tissue must be removed, which may even amount to an entire limb amputation.
It is also likely that a delay will cause the infection to spread to the blood. This will be life-threatening as a patient will go into septic response, which can potentially lead to the organs shutting-down.
Necrotising fasciitis and medical negligence claims
If substandard medical care results in the aforementioned complications, there will be grounds for a medical negligence claim.
A solicitor will be able to suggest whether or not the care given to your loved one amounted to a substandard level of medical practice. Ordinarily, necrotising fasciitis claims arise because there was a delay in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease – despite the fact there were clear clinical indicators that a severe infection was present.
Fatal claims
If your loved one died because of necrotising fasciitis, we understand the trauma you will currently be going through. This will be all the more devastating if medical error is to blame.
Although it cannot undo the loss that you and your family have suffered, you will be entitled to pursue a claim against the medical practitioner or organisation responsible. You can do this on behalf of your loved one’s estate.
Making a claim will see that you are given financial redress to reflect the pain and suffering endured, and will recover the money you have lost as a direct result of the negligence.
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