Our Intensive Care claims expertise
Our medical negligence team
specialise in intensive care negligence.
Our specialist solicitors have won many claims for clients who have
suffered injuries while being treated in an intensive care
unit, also known as intensive treatment
unit.
Patients who are being treated in the
intensive care unit (ICU) are very ill. Small
medical mistakes or accidents can have catastrophic
consequences. Patients may be left with severe life-altering
injuries and,
sometimes, negligent errors can result in a patient's death and a
fatal claim will be taken on behalf of
the deceased.
Intensive care legal claim
Claims for intensive care
negligence are not straightforward. The severity of the
underlying illness may impact on the case against the hospital, as
if a patient was very sick, the outcome (injury or death) may have
been the same even if there was no error.
Causation
is often difficult to prove but our medical negligence team have the knowledge and
experience to successfully pursue intensive care negligence
cases.
The care that is received on the intensive
care unit is not beyond reproach and as in all walks of life,
sometimes simple mistakes do happen. Patients may be left
unnecessarily injured, or die, as a result of substandard
management.
Compensation may be recovered if negligence
can be proved. it is important to always bear in mind that
patients are on an intensive care ward because they are usually
critically ill, and, because of the severity of the underlying
problems, the outcome may have been the same irrespective of
whether the care had been adequate or not. For this reason
these cases may not be straightforward.
Anaesthetics and intensive care claims
Complications from general
anaesthesia are fortunately rare nowadays, but if and when
they do occur, they can be catastrophic, resulting in brain damage
or death. Anaesthetists and anaesthetic error are also often involved with the
management of patients on intensive care units and with running
outpatient pain clinics. Click here for
information on anaesthetic error claims.
Contact us
For further information or if you believe you
have an intensive care legal
claim, please contact our medical
negligence team on freephone 0800 358 3848,
email personalinjury@ffw.com or
complete our short enquiry form.
All enquiries are completely free of charge
and we will investigate all funding options for you including
legal aid and no win, no fee.