Quinn v Masivlaniec & Ors (Unapproved)

�This is the defendants� appeal against the judgment (19 July 2018) and Order (19 July 2018 as perfected on 23 July 2018) of the High Court (Butler J.) made in a personal injuries action, awarding the plaintiff damages in the sum of �219,750, comprising general damages of �210,000 and �9,750 in special damages, together with an Order awarding the plaintiff her costs.

In his report of 23 January 2017, Mr. James Geraghty, Consultant Surgeon retained by the defendants, described the injury in the following terms:

� This patient developed a significant abdominal complication following the above road traffic accident.� This resulted in perforation of the small bowel and ischemic segment of the small bowel.� These are life threatening injuries which can occur with a blunt abdominal trauma.� If the patient did not have the appropriate treatment, then this patient almost certainly would have had an adverse outcome.�

It is common case that the plaintiff suffered from constipation prior to the accident.

�[a]t some future point, suffer adhesional obstruction to her small bowel.� Adhesions form in up to 93 percent of patients with prior abdominal and pelvic surgery. The lifetime risk for adhesive small bowel obstruction after general abdominal surgery is reported as being up to 10%, with adhesive small bowel obstruction requiring re-operation in approximately 2.5% of all patients. � It is possible that [the plaintiff] has adhesions causing her abdominal pain, her bloating and borborygmi.� If her symptoms deteriorated she may require laparoscopy with adhesiolysis ....�