Medical Malpractice

Families who have decided to put their elderly in nursing homes or assisted living facilities are thinking that it is the best thing to do. They want their elderly to be nursed properly by professionals. They are delegating the task that they can't do due to increasing responsibilities. However, risks are involved once the elderly is left on the hand of others. Just like sepsis from pressure sore.

Pressure sore or bed sore may sound fatal. Yes it is, as it can be followed through by sepsis. Pressure sore makes your body highly susceptible to fungal, viral, and bacterial activities especially when it is unattended immediately. This can lead to sepsis where your body has to fight an infection that has severely spread in the bloodstream. Sepsis will make the blood pressure become low and will cause a poor circulation of blood that will greatly affect the vital organs. This can pose threat to the life of the victim.

Elderly most likely will have sepsis from pressure sore since they are the ones with weakened immune system. Inattention of health providers in nursing homes contributes a lot to developing this condition. Pressure sores happen when the elderly, especially when bed-ridden, is not turned regularly for at least two hours. Those who also sit on their urine and feces for an extended period of time will have the same problem.

Clearly, it is the neglect of health providers that causes these things to happen. However, it may take a thorough investigation to prove the deficiency of the facility. Nursing home attorneys should be contacted once you suspect that maltreatment is happening to your patient.

Cases of maltreatment and neglect are becoming rampant among nursing homes due to lack of staff, training, sanitation and professionalism. Maltreatment is very easy to do especially if the patient is not capable of remembering things anymore. Oftentimes, the medical condition of the patient is the basis whether he was maltreated or not.

The nursing home may use the pre-existing medical condition of the patient as an alibi. But if you can prove that your patient's medical condition will not lead possibilities of developing pressure sore unless left unattended, you will have more chance of winning the case.

Nursing home attorneys are experts in dealing with maltreatment cases in nursing homes. Some of them have medical background that can easily help in identifying malpractice by health providers.