Medical Negligence
Pearson Legal
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META DESCRIPTION: Our medical negligence solicitors secure a settlement against Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in a Gentamicin case. Gentamicin Kidney Toxicity Case Gentamicin Kidney Toxicity Case As a result of Gentamicin toxicity (antibiotic poisoning), a medical negligence client was left with life-changing effects leaving him unable to work and needing care and assistance following hospital treatment and medication errors. Our client is a married man living with a wife and two dependent children. He previously worked as an accountant and was generally fit and healthy, with no medical issues. He suffered from a dilated aorta and was treated with an aortic valve replacement, from which he recovered. Four years later aged 47 our client attended the Accident & Emergency Department at Chorley District Hospital with a fever of 39.9 °C and a painful right thumb. The following morning, he complained of a three-day history of lethargy, fever, rigors, calf pain and increasing pain and discolouration of the thumb and fingers on his right hand. Thromboembolic disease was suspected as was Endocarditis, which is a life-threatening inflammation of the inner lining of the heart's chambers and valves. Our client was treated various times with a mixture of antibiotics including , Flucloxacillin and Rifampicin. Gentamicin and Nephrotoxicity During the course of treatment, it was noted by the Doctor treating him that our client suffered from tinnitus “due to Gentamicin” and it was alleged by our medical negligence solicitors that no responsible cardiologist, physician or microbiologist would have approved of the continuation of Gentamicin following the advent of evidence of nephrotoxicity, as was the case here. What is Nephrotoxicity? Nephrotoxicity is the deterioration of kidney function due to the toxic effects of medications and chemicals.
Measurable Results
Compensation settlement: £175,000