OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE

Obstetrics and gynaecology is one of the main fields that give rise to medical negligence compensation claims. Almost a half of all medical negligence claims are as a result of gynaecological mistakes. The main causes for complaint that lead to legal action include:

• Contraception
• failure to prevent pregnancy
• thrombosis due to oral contraception
• side effects of injectable hormone contraceptives
• perforation of the uterus following the introduction of intra-uterine contraceptive devices including the coil
• Complications of abortion:
  • failure and sometimes wrongful birth
  • perforation of uterus or damage to other organs
  • loss of future childbearing capacity due to infection or due to subsequent need for a hysterectomy

• Gynaecology surgery including diagnostic and operative laparoscopy
• defective consent
• abdominal wall injury during laparoscopy
• failure to detect internal haemorrhage
• injury to bowel
• injury to bladder or ureters
• delay in diagnosis of pregnancy, ectopic pregnancy and genital cancer
• inadvertant sterilisation by the introduction of infection
• failure to remove swabs
• unnecessary operations

• Failure of sterilisation which sometimes leads to abortion or wrongful birth
• Failure to interpret tests or act appropriately in cervical cancer cases

OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY SPECIALIST SOLICITORS

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