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A motorbike rider has launched a claim for clinical negligence compensation from a hospital after he had his leg amputated following a road traffic accident.
The 34-year-old was involved in a car crash in July 2009 and was admitted to the Royal London Hospital for emergency surgery.
As medical staff operated on his right leg they lifted his other leg to keep it out of the way. However, the biker claims that doctors had failed to notice the lack of a pulse in his left leg. This negligence resulted in a blocked artery in his leg, which meant that the limb had to be amputated.
The claimant insists that the clot could have been identified much sooner had medical staff lowered his leg and regularly massaged it at intervals during the operation.
The man has since launched a claim for clinical negligence compensation from Barts and the London NHS Trust and is hoping to receive around £300,000 in damages.
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