A hospital trust had agreed to pay £1.2m in compensation to a patient who lost his leg after developing blood clots following surgery. The 59-year-old man had been scheduled for surgery at Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham on October 17, 2016 to remove a tumour from his bowel.
The operation went smoothly, however a day later he started experiencing numbness and pain in his right leg and coldness in his foot, Hull Live reports. His lawyer claims these symptoms should have been reviewed by a specialist immediately.
Instead, the patient was diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and the complication was handled ‘with a completely inappropriate lack of urgency'. Doctors failed to act for three days until the patient was eventually to transferred to Hull Royal Infirmary for an emergency duplex ultrasound scan, which looks at the blood flow in the major arteries and veins in the arms and legs.
