As a fast-moving illness, the symptoms of sepsis will appear rapidly but there are a number of tell-tale signs, including breathlessness, shivering, muscle pain, fever, fast heart beat, dizziness, sickness or diarrhea. If a patient display two of the symptoms below, it could be an indication of Sepsis: A fever above 101ºF or a temperature below 96.8ºF A heart rate […]
Common symptoms of sepsis
How long have I got to make a sepsis compensation claim?
As with all personal injury claims there is what is known as a limitation period by which time proceedings have to be issued. The standard limitation period is that a claim has to be issued within three years of the date of knowledge that an injury has occurred. Where a person lacks mental capacity there is no limit and with […]
Road traffic accidents
If you have suffered as a result of a road traffic accident either as a driver or passenger or pedestrian our team of specialist solicitors is on hand to help you claim the compensation that you deserve. We have several in-house solicitors who specialise in road traffic accident claims. Not only are they experts in dealing with the legal aspects […]
Accidents at work
Accidents at work can have a devastating effect on your finances and your health. If you have been physically or psychologically injured whilst at work as the result of an accident, you are not alone – and we are here to help you. We are experts in dealing with personal injury claims for people that are injured in the course […]
BBI SEM Scanner Reduces Pressure Ulcer Incidence by 86 Percent
It is unfortunate that the care provided in hospitals and care centres has never been quite good enough to avoid the development of pressure sores. It only takes just a little more care and attention from a hospital worker that could help to reduce the incidence of pressure sores amongst those confined to beds and who are unable to help […]
Spinal Injury Patient Awarded Half a Million Pounds Because of Pressure Sore Negligence
An elderly man who was admitted to Stoke Mandeville Hospital’s spinal injury unit because of a severe spinal cord injury has just received 475,000 pounds in compensation. It was determined that negligence at the hospital, as well as the Royal London Hospital immediately beforehand, was responsible for the development of pressure sores which severely impacted on the man’s ability to […]
Did Pressure Sores Contribute to a Patient’s Death in a Hackney Hospital?
What seems to be substandard care at an East London hospital may have resulted in an elderly patient’s untimely death as well as him being wrongly marked for cremation despite his family’s express wishes for burial. 88 year old Barsey Spencer, a migrant from Jamaica in the 1950s, died in the Royal London Hospital and his daughter believes that untended […]
Bed Sores Ruin a British Couple’s Caribbean Cruise
Recently, a British father was left in a dirty hospital on the brink of death following a Caribbean cruise and he claims he was forced to suffer from bed sores (also called pressure sores or pressure ulcers) as he was tied to his bed. Cruises through the Caribbean Islands are never cheap and ending up in a dirty hospital with […]