Intensive care
The roles of Intensive Care, Intensive Therapy and High Dependency Units are very important to patients suffering from acute life threatening illness who rely heavily on the expert treatment they offer, and the aim is to prevent death and also to focus heavily on protecting patients’ vital organs and their function from damage. Ultimately the aim is to improve the health of the patient.
Usually patients who need intensive care have suffered very bad injuries in accidents or are suffering from an illness or disease that can be life threatening. Some patients may be dangerously ill following major surgery, or may have suffered a heart attack, in which case they may be given intensive care in a Coronary Care Unit.
Working together intensive care teams, headed by consultant intensivists, have extensive experience in handling critically ill patients and draw on their individual area of expertise to support each other. They use highly sophisticated monitors and equipment to ensure they can provide the specialist care needed by patients.
Although every effort will be made to save lives it is often the case that patients who require this treatment are very poorly and even with the best care, their injuries or medical condition means they are unable to survive. If they do, they may face a life of disability or pain.
Sadly patients who are receiving such treatment are often so ill that it may be difficult to prove that negligence affected the patient’s condition and that their death or their final medical condition wasn’t going to happen anyway. Bearing this in mind, it is very important that you have the support of specialist lawyers who can identify if there may be a claim for medical negligence and how to approach such a claim.
If you have suffered as a result of a medical accident or because of sub-standard care or management, the law can help you find out what happened and why, and in some cases recover compensation for your suffering.
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