“I didn’t realise how infected my leg had become until I started to feel more and more unwell. It was poisoning me.”

A gentleman fell off his bicycle and left the wound to his leg untreated for some time.

He eventually presented at the Urgent Care Centre with a gross infection causing septicaemia which made him feel extremely ill. He was assessed and immediately transferred to the high dependency unit within the main hospital.

A debridement of the wound was undertaken in theatre the following day