Posted inClinical negligence Issue 9

Advice and Aortic Valves

Negus v Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust [2021] EWHC 643 (QB) The facts The claim was brought by the executors on behalf of the estate of Mrs Tracy Neill. On 4 March 2014 the Deceased underwent the implantation of a 19mm mechanical aortic valve. The Claimants alleged that…
July 5, 2021Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 9Tags: , ,
Posted inClinical negligence Issue 9

The Importance of Contemporaneous Medical Records

HXC (by her litigation friend) JXS vs Hind, Craze [2020] 10 WLUK 603 The facts On 8 June 2016, the then 24-year-old Claimant suffered a catastrophic subarachnoid haemorrhage arising from the rupture of a 10-11mm left internal carotid artery aneurysm. As a result of the haemorrhage she had a dense…
July 5, 2021Posted inClinical negligence, Issue 9Tags: ,