Lawyers for a woman who had to undergo a leg amputation have said it was caused by a two-day delay in removing a blood clot she developed during surgery.<\/p>\n
Problems arose when medical staff at Wolverhampton’s New Cross Hospital did not consult vascular experts after fitting a vascular clamp to an artery to stop a bleed as Sawarn Kaur, 81, underwent a hysterectomy, Irwin MItchell said.<\/p>\n
The delay meant circulation could not return to Kaur’s left leg and she had to have it removed below the knee, the firm said.<\/p>\n
It said The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust had admitted liability and apologised, but the trust told the BBC it could not comment while legal action continued.<\/p>\n
Irwin Mitchell is pursuing compensation on behalf of Kaur and said it hoped highlighting the case would lead to lessons being learnt.<\/p>\n
It said surgeons at New Cross Hospital had clamped the main artery to her left leg, during the operation in July 2021.<\/p>\n
But it said medical staff failed to record in her notes that the clamp had been used and failed to contact vascular specialists for advice.<\/p>\n
She eventually underwent surgery to remove the clot two days later, but the leg could not be saved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawyers for a woman who had to undergo a leg amputation have said it was caused by a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-694685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}