Mr Ameh is an experienced Consultant in Accident and Emergency Medicine and has been a Expert Witness since 2009. He combines his 17 years of being a specialist in medico-legal practice with a longstanding clinical career in emergency care.

Mr Ameh’s medico-legal expertise is grounded in formal expert witness training including Bond Solon and extensive experience preparing bespoke expert reports for personal injury, clinical negligence and criminal matters. He is routinely instructed by claimant and defendant teams and has experience in court attendance and specialist medico-legal assessments.

His medico-legal work encompasses evaluation and reporting on a broad range of emergency care issues—including trauma, soft-tissue and whiplash injuries, missed or delayed diagnosis (such as fractures, sepsis, appendicitis, stroke and acute coronary syndromes), resuscitation practice and advanced life support.

Mr Ameh has a balanced ratio of CN and PI work and is happy to opine on condition and prognosis, breach of duty, liability and causation.

Mr Ameh has extensive experience in cases associated with:

Clinical negligence

• Missed/delayed diagnosis/management of:
  – Fracture
  – Sepsis
  – Pulmonary embolism
  – Significant soft tissue infections
  – Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES)
  – Appendicitis
  – Aortic dissection
  – Acute coronary syndrome/heart attack
  – Stroke/transient ischaemic attack (TIA)
  – Subarachnoid haemorrhage
  – Resuscitation
  – Care for critically ill
  – Advance life support
  – Myocardial infarction/acute coronary syndrome (ACS)
  – Ectopic pregnancy
  – Bowel obstruction or perforation
• Trauma and injury management
  – Head injury (including CT head decision-making)
  – Spinal injury assessment and immobilisation
  – Polytrauma management
  – Fracture recognition and management
  – Missed fracture of dislocations
  – Burns assessment and referral
  – Non-accident injury
• Paediatric emergency care
  – Febrile child assessment
  – Missed sepsis or menigitis
  – Safeguarding failures
  – Head injuries in children
  – Neonatal presentations
  – Discharge of unwell children
• Clinical governance and complaint handling
• Procedural and treatment errors
  – Incorrect or delay treatment
  – Failure to escalate to senior clinicians
  – Failure to refer to appropriate specialist
  – Medication errors
  – Fluid management
  – Analgesia and sedation
  – Airway management
  – Failed or delayed intubation
  – Management of anaphylaxis or asthma
• Systems and departmental failures
  – Emergency department overcrowding
  – Delay due to bed storages
  – Handover failure
  – Triage errors
  – Inadequate staffing or supervision
  – Delays in investigations or reporting
  – Ambulance offload delays
• Consent, documentation and communication
  – Inadequate documentation
  – Consent in emergencies
  – Communication failures with patients or families
  – Failure to provide safety-net advice
  – Discharge planning errors
  – Do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) discussions in emergency department

Personal injury

• Trauma (multi-regional, soft tissue injury)
• Whiplash
  – Whiplash associated disorders
• Initial emergency department assessment after injury
• Appropriateness of investigations
• Early management decisions
• Discharge and follow-up advice

Mr Ameh’s availability is 2-3 weeks and has a report turnaround time of 3-4 weeks.