Negligent Weight-Loss Surgery
Bridge McFarland's Ian Sprakes & Danielle Barney won £35,000 in compensation for a lady who underwent weight loss surgery and as a result of negligence by the surgeon ended up on a ventilator and in intensive care for 2 weeks.
Our Client, 28, needed two weeks in intensive care and a total of five weeks in hospital in 2007 after “keyhole” surgery intended to help her lose weight by bypassing part of her stomach went badly wrong.
The operation initially appeared to go well but, it was claimed, the surgeon failed properly to suture one of four port entry sites used to insert the surgical instruments.
As a result, the claimant developed a hernia that obstructed her small bowel, causing pressure that broke down or “blew out” the stomach bypass. She quickly developed acute peritonitis and required two further emergency operations to reduce the hernia and repair the original surgery. She had to spend a total of 11 days on a ventilator and also underwent a tracheotomy.
Our client later required further surgery to repair the hernia and she has been left with unsightly and distressing scars on her abdomen.
As a result of the negligence our client was awarded £35,000 in compensation.
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