Sentences with word «septicaemia»

There were at least 1500 cases of septicaemia caused by Pseudomonas in hospital patients in England and Wales last year, according to Britain's Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, and the majority were caused by P. aeruginosa.

Anita Jewitt Qualified: 2008 Made partner: 2015 Key cases: Recovered # 8.5 m for a child with quadriplegic cerebral palsy following the hospital's delay in expediting his delivery; recovered # 7.4 m for a child who sustained bilateral upper and lower limb amputations as a result of the delayed diagnosis of meningococcal septicaemia; recovered # 6m for a child who suffered from cerebral palsy as a result of the hospital's failure to carry out an earlier caesarean section.

Research sheds light on initial phase of infectious disease and potential for prevention of pneumococcal septicaemia

The 41 - year - old journalist contracted septicaemia after routine surgery and contacted the Camidoc out - of - hours service in north London.

Once the heartbeat stopped medical staff removed the dead foetus, but it was too late for Halappanavar, who died of septicaemia on October 28th.

The paper, Intracellular replication of Streptococcus pneumoniae inside splenic macrophages serves as a reservoir for septicaemia, will be published in the journal Nature Microbiology.

Some dogs may collapse, which indicates a developing septicaemia.

Any other syndrome causing neonatal mortality (e.g. toxic milk syndrome, mycoplasmosis, neonatal septicaemia).

Following the tragic death of baby, William Mead, who died of septicaemia in 2014, out of hours primary care services, particularly NHS 111 have been in the news again reports Moore Blatch.

Denise has recently achieved settlements including: # 205,000 for death due to a failure to treat septicaemia; # 100,000 for an elderly diabetic client who suffered an amputation due to negligent care of his diabetic complications; # 70,000 for osteoporosis caused by steroid treatment and # 100,000 for a life threatening infection due to a failure to adequately evacuate the uterus following caesarean section.

A recent out of court settlement, where a delay in diagnosing meningococcal septicaemia led to the death of a four - year - old boy, highlights significant patient safety issues says Moore Blatch.

Ms Dhu died on 4 August 2014 from staphylococcal septicaemia — a severe bacterial infection — and pneumonia, which were complicated by a previously obtained rib fracture.

The research also shows that antimicrobial therapy, specifically targeted to abort this phase of intracellular replication, can prevent the occurrence of pneumococcal septicaemia, which is common in many patients suffering from pneumonia.

The next morning Danny was found by his mother, lying unconscious and covered in a rash — he was immediately taken to hospital, but sadly died later that day of meningococcal septicaemia.

However, it has previously stated that early detection of septicaemia — blood poisoning that kills 31,000 people in the UK every year — might be one future application.

She was seen by eight different doctors, all of whom failed to diagnose the septicaemia.

Savita Halappanavar died of septicaemia a week after going to the hospital with back pains and being found to have had a miscarriage.

Among the Aboriginal children of Central Australia, researchers have found extraordinarily high rates of pneumonia, septicaemia and meningitis, all severe complications of infection with Pneumococcus bacteria.

According to Tyrone Pitt, deputy director of the Laboratory of Hospital Infections in London, if the bacterium enters the bloodstream it can lead to septicaemia.

At just 17, Micah was hospitalised with a kidney infection that caused septicaemia and her body was on the brink of collapsing.

Once again, we are treated to plenty of interesting facts in easily - digestible morsels, this time about the autopsy of poisoning victims, septicaemia and cult religious groups.

Vomiting can be due to liver disease, kidney problems, pancreatitis, neurological disease, viral diseases, parasites, uterine infections (pyometra), metabolic disease (diabetes and Addison's disease), ear disease, cancer, septicaemia and any number of other processes.

Despite several trips by William's mother to his GP surgery and consultations with NHS 111, a diagnosis of septicaemia was missed.

The questions template relied upon by non-medically trained out of hours staff was too inflexible to pick up the red flag warning signs of septicaemia.

I have extensive experience in settling a wide variety of clinical negligence claims including cases involving brain injuries such as HSE encephalitis, septicaemia, loss of vision, hearing loss, obstetric, amputation and other orthopaedic injuries, haemochromatosis, osteoporosis and delayed cancer cases, particularly prostate and bowel cancers.

Moore Blatch clinical negligence partner, Sarah Stanton comments: «Meningococcal disease — usually meningitis or septicaemia — is a fast, progressing illness where early diagnosis is crucial.

The disease usually presents as meningitis or septicaemia, or a combination of the two presentations, with a case fatality rate of approximately 10 % despite appropriate antibiotic therapy.1 Pneumonia, arthritis and conjunctivitis may also occur.