Breach of Duty
Independent Liability and Breach of Duty reports for claims around injury or illness eg missed fractures, wound care, pneumococcal or meningococcal disease/sepsis
PAEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Chris FitzSimmons is a Consultant
in Paediatric Emergency Medicine
working full time at
Sheffield Children's Hospital,
one of only 5 dedicated paediatric
Emergency Departments in England.
He qualified in 1993 and has over
29 years experience of working in multiple specialities and more than 25 years
experience in Emergency Medicine.
He was the Lead Clinician for the Emergency Department between 2004-2008 and Lead Clinician for the development of the hospital's
Major Trauma Centre from 2011- 2018.
Chris has been working exclusively
in Paediatric Emergency Medicine
for the last 20 years and has been preparing potential Breach of Duty Reports for the past 9 years, producing over 120 reports to date.
His current claimant:defendant ratio
is 70:30.
Chris has the expertise to comment
upon all aspects of management in
the Paediatric Emergency Department.
For a full CV, Terms of Engagement, details
on Fees or current Report timescales
please follow the links below.
Paediatric Emergency Medicine
is generally considered a high
volume, low risk speciality. Serious injuries and
life threatening illnesses are fortunately now
rarer than ever before.
The majority of cases seen day to
day are relatively minor illness
or minor injury and resolve
with minimal investigation or
treatment and usually without consequence.
However, despite everyone's best efforts within
the hospital team, symptoms and signs are
sometimes missed or their
significance not appreciated.
Often a poor outcome is simply unpredictable but on other occasions it may
be
found to be compounded
by omissions in care.
Increasingly, contact is being made
with regard to cases of 'missed'
sepsis and these cases form a large part of
my reporting workload.
With many years of full time
clinical experience and 9 years
of
Medico-legal experience I am
well
placed to review cases and form
an independent opinion on
Emergency Department Standards
of Care.
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