Medical Negligence
Pearson Legal
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Mr B had suffered from epilepsy for approximately four years prior but otherwise enjoyed an independent and active life with his wife. He was admitted to the Medical Assessment Unit at Tameside Hospital with confusion, hallucinations, delusions and possible fits and given muscle relaxants and sedatives and spent most of the next few days asleep.
Mr B was reviewed by a senior neurologist who advised that if Mr B suffered back to back seizures he would need Intensive Care review and sedation. His condition deteriorated, he lost consciousness and crucially, on review by an ITU registrar and the consultant anaesthetist on call, it was concluded he did not require intensive care treatment at that time, despite contrary advice. The medical registrar responsible for Mr B’s care had no knowledge of the Trust’s policy for the management of status epilepticus and the senior neurologist had to direct him to move our client to the HDU and commence anaesthetic to attempt to preserve brain function.
The following day the senior neurologist reviewed Mr B and concluded that he had been in status epilepticus for most of the weekend and his treatment had not followed hospital protocol. He concluded that the patient should have been anaesthetised in order to produce burst suppression of the seizures and limit or avoid brain damage. Unfortunately Mr B’s consciousness level did not improve and it was concluded that he had suffered brain damage as a result of the status epilepticus.
He remained unconscious at Tameside Hospital until he was transferred to Willow Wood Hospice where he died approximately six weeks later.
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