When is treatment at at nhs hospital negligent?

Seymour

2 weeks after colonoscopy and banding of haemorrhoid's you report to hospital following massive hemorrhage at home,in hospital you have another hemorrhage in public toilet. you are then examined by doctor who puts drip in right arm, you tell her you are about to hemorrhage again and ask her to do something. She tells you to hold drip up with left hand and go to public toilet, you have another hemorrhage and have to be resuscitated by a trauma team and end up with 2 drips in each arm and a colostomy.



Medusa

Having two intravenous lines ("drips") following a colostomy for uncontrolledcolorectal bleeding is not unusual. With a complete medical history we may find details which you omit in your question such as bleeding disorders and other possible comorbid medical conditions. We cannot judge anything to benegligent from the small amount of information you provide. Things often become hectic in emergencies. I have asked a patient to hold an IV bag at times when we didn't have enough help. Sounds like the medical team may have saved your life.



Highland Park

Sounds like you or someone you love, has had a terrible hospital experience. I can not say that a similar experience might not happen in the US. However, I am not sure that the fact you collapsed was due to their negligence, but rather from profound blood loss. It would seem reasonable that you should have been accompanied to the bathroom by an aid or keep on bed rest. I hope the colostomy is not permanent. Good luck !



West Leechburg

The simple fact of this is you have ended up catastrophically affected by now needing a colostomy and you need to ask the question, why was it necessary to have a colostomy?.Would the haemmorhaging scenario have occured if you had not had the procedures?Were you informed of the risks of both colonoscopy and banding of haemorrhoids during the informed consenting process prior to having them done?.I do question why you were sent to the public toilet with a drip in situ. However if you had not gone you may have haemmorhaged in your bed and perhaps still would have required resuscitation and a Colostomy.The Doctor who sent you to the toilet may have made a bad call but they are not the cause of your Colostomy. However the bad call could have led to you suffering futher injuries not connected to your original health complaint, therefore I would suggest that raising a concern on this matter would be beneficial. I doubt however that it could be deemed negligent unless there were many significant signs that you were already very unwell prior to your trip to the loo on the second occasion.It would be in your interest to determine how long you were waiting for treatment in the Hospital and whether a long delay might have had a detremental effect on the health of your bowel.You need to know from your Consultant Surgeon what caused the haemorrhage and why the need for a Colostomy. Do this in writing so that you get a written reply. Even if you have had a verbal meet with him before. Use you GP to allow you to understand the jargon or he might have the information on record already.Then work from there to realise if you have any further complaints to raise.If you feel that there is a need to formally complain then you must write to the Hospital for them to try to asertain why things went wrong.If errors come to light then you have every right to seek redress. I hope some of my thoughts might help you to break things down.Good luck