Pressure ulcer and wound care cases often involve complex medical issues, extensive records, multiple healthcare providers, and difficult questions regarding liability, causation, and damages. Evaluating these cases requires more than reviewing wound photographs or treatment notes, it often requires reconstructing timelines, analyzing risk assessments, and understanding how wound progression, infection, and communication failures may affect the outcome of a claim.
Prepared by the BBGA Wound Care Litigation Team, this free guide provides a practical overview of the medical and legal issues attorneys frequently encounter in pressure ulcer litigation. Topics include pressure ulcer staging, Braden and Norton risk assessments, infection progression, sepsis, osteomyelitis, transfers between healthcare facilities, amputation, wrongful death, and evaluating potential wound care cases.
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