Joyce v Wandsworth Health Authority

(1995) 6 Med LR 60

QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION

and Mr Justice OVEREND

Professional liability — Cardiology registrar — Diagnosis and treatment — Brachial cardiac catheterisation — Suturing error causing vascular complications — Repair/reconstruction operations carried out — Whether brachial artery was wholly or partially occluded on completion of the procedure — Whether signs and symptoms such that surgeon should have appreciated that circulation in patient's right arm was compromised — Whether patient should not have been discharged from the hospital until the circulation had been restored to normal — Whether registrar should have called for assistance of vascular surgeons