What is often referred to as ‘hand arm vibration syndrome’ (HAVS) is in fact a blanket term for a number of conditions, two of which in particular can result in compensation claims – either from the DWP in the form of Industrial Injuries Compensation or from employers for a failure in a duty of care.
There are a number of areas where medico-legal problems can arise is relation to knee surgery:
1) A failure of technique can be very easy to spot using X rays or MRI scans. There can be dispute between experts as to what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. Clearly none of us get it right all the time!
Foot and ankle surgeons offer comprehensive surgical care for a wide variety of problems, including:
Peripheral nerves are the extensive network of nerves that link the brain and spinal cord to all other parts of the body and are fragile and easily damaged.
A nerve injury can interfere with the communication between the brain and the muscles controlled by the nerve, affecting a person’s ability to move certain muscles or feel normal sensations.
A burn is an injury typically of the skin of variable thickness whereby the thicker the injury the greater the propensity for scarring. Burns are caused by extremes of thermal contact whether hot or cold, electricity, chemicals and ultraviolet irradiation.
Approximately 175,000 people per year in the UK attend accident and emergency departments with burn injuries although only about 10% require hospitalisation. Admission is more likely as a result of extensive areas involved, thicker burns, electrical or chemical burns, airway burns, paediatric burns with risk of non-accidental injury and circumferential burns of any body part.
