Articles in ‘Cardiac negligence’ Category

As a UK Top 100 law firm specialising in medical negligence and cardiac claims, we realise the importance of sharing our knowledge to help people make better informed decisions. To continue to support individuals…

Congenital heart lesions are surprisingly common. In this article, we take a “deep dive” through six conditions that are illustrative of the kind of issues that can occur, and give some indication of what…

In clinical negligence litigation, as in everything else, you can see trends emerge over time; history famously doesn’t repeat itself, but it tends to rhyme. Over the past few years, I have noticed a…

  So today we are talking about the treatment of myocardial infarction (hopefully I’m pronouncing that correctly) and its relation to coronavirus so as some people are seeing – when coronavirus first became a…

I was disturbed to read about the latest developments in the ongoing saga relating to standards in heart surgery at St George’s Hospital in London. This saga has now been unfolding for some years….

The aim of the campaign is to encourage people to dial 999 should they experience any early signs of a heart attack. The campaign, which is specific to heart attacks, known as ‘Help Us…

Statistically 5% of all sudden cardiac arrests (SCA) will occur in the workplace, equivalent to approximately 100 a week in the UK alone.

As part of her work considering all aspects of inquest law, Ali Cloak, considers the increasing use of post-mortem imaging to determine a cause of death as an alternative to an invasive surgical autopsy.

Joachim Stanley, an experienced member of our Medical Negligence team, talks about his experience following a cardiac event this year.