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Department of Ophthalmology<br />
<strong>St</strong>.Vincent’s Healthcare Group<br />
Department of<br />
Orthopaedic Surgery<br />
Departmental Review<br />
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weekly in-house teaching sessions in which the medical, nursing<br />
<strong>and</strong> orthoptic staff all participate.<br />
Members of the department have made presentations at the<br />
European Society of Cataract <strong>and</strong> Refractive Surgery in Munich,<br />
the American Society of Cataract <strong>and</strong> Refractive Surgery in San<br />
Diego <strong>and</strong> the Association of Research in Vision <strong>and</strong><br />
Ophthalmology meeting in Fort Lauderdale. Mr Power is author<br />
of the chapter "Scleral Transplantation" in "Ocular Inflammatory<br />
Disease",Lippencott & Williams,2003.<br />
Opthalmology <strong>St</strong>. James Ward<br />
Like all other departments in the hospital, we look forward to<br />
the opening of Phase One of the new hospital.This we believe<br />
will leave us in a stronger position to introduce daycare cataract<br />
surgery coupled with pre-operative assessment clinics.We also<br />
look forward to the appointments of Clinical Nurse Specialists<br />
<strong>and</strong> an advanced Nurse Practitioner to help us meet the<br />
dem<strong>and</strong>s of an ever changing speciality.<br />
We would like to take this opportunity to thank the hospital<br />
management for their support throughout the years.<br />
2002 2003<br />
<strong>St</strong> James In-Patients Admissions 458 458<br />
<strong>St</strong> James In-Patients<br />
Discharges 456 451<br />
Cataract<br />
Procedures 324 310<br />
Consultants<br />
Orthopaedic Theatre<br />
Mr.W. Quinlan<br />
Mr. B. Hurson<br />
Mr. S.K.O’Rourke<br />
Mr. E. P. Kelly<br />
Mr. S. Dudney<br />
Ms.K.Lennon. CNM2<br />
Ms.A. Breen CNM1<br />
<strong>St</strong>.Laurence’s Orthopaedic Ward<br />
Orthopaedic Plaster Service<br />
Administration<br />
Ms.G. Fields CNM2<br />
Ms.R. Hayden CNM1<br />
Ms. P. Brannigan Clinical Nurse Specialist<br />
Ms.A. Camblin CNM1<br />
Ms.Jenni Cross<br />
Ms.Frances Doyle<br />
This requires cooperation with <strong>and</strong> expeditious use of facilities<br />
provided by the other hospitals <strong>and</strong> also rehabilitation<br />
amenities,which continue to be limited <strong>and</strong> difficult to access.<br />
This is perhaps the greatest challenge to caring for the<br />
significant elderly population of our catchment area.The<br />
absence of adequate rehabilitation or step-down facilities<br />
remains the major impediment to complete care.The<br />
development of an Ortho-Geriatric Service is key to<br />
development into the future. Although <strong>St</strong>.Vincent’s caters for<br />
trauma associated with commercial activity, domestic <strong>and</strong> road<br />
traffic accidents there is a significant <strong>and</strong> increasing number of<br />
elderly patients in the population presenting with insufficiency<br />
fractures. It is a credit to our colleagues in the Dept.of<br />
<strong>Anaesthesia</strong> that they can manage the often-complex medical<br />
situations with which an elderly population tend to present.<br />
Fracture clinics are carried out in the three hospitals with Mr.<br />
Quinlan,Hurson <strong>and</strong> Dudeney attending clinics in <strong>St</strong>.Michael’s<br />
Hospital, Mr. O’Rourke <strong>and</strong> Kelly in <strong>St</strong>.Colmcille’s Hospital <strong>and</strong><br />
all attend clinics in <strong>St</strong>.Vincent’s University Hospital.In addition<br />
subspecialty clinics are carried out in <strong>St</strong>.Vincent’s University<br />
Hospital – upper limb/joint replacement or Cappagh Hospital -<br />
orthopaedic oncology.<br />
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<strong>St</strong> James Day <strong>Care</strong> Admissions 1846 1994<br />
Discharges 1846 1994<br />
<strong>St</strong> James Day <strong>Care</strong> Orthoptic Total Attendance's 502 927<br />
<strong>St</strong> James A/E Ophthalmic Patients Total Attendance's 1261 1016<br />
<strong>St</strong> James +A2 In-Patient Referrals Total Attendance's 309 327<br />
Ophthalmology Out-Patients New 773 781<br />
The Orthopaedic Dept.as part of the Department of Surgery<br />
aspires to deliver a quality service in musculoskeletal trauma to<br />
the catchment area of South Dublin <strong>and</strong> Wicklow, that is,the<br />
East Coast area of the Eastern Regional Health Authority.<br />
Access to the service is through the three Accident <strong>and</strong><br />
Emergency Departments of <strong>St</strong>.Vincent’s University Hospital,<strong>St</strong>.<br />
Columcille’s Hospital <strong>and</strong> <strong>St</strong>. Michael’s Hospital to a centralised<br />
operative fracture treatment facility at <strong>St</strong>.Vincent’s University<br />
Hospital.This allows the delivery of a same day service to<br />
patients presenting for treatment following injury.<br />
Elective Surgery from the unit is carried out in The National<br />
Orthopaedic Hospital at Cappagh.The Orthopaedic<br />
Service of <strong>St</strong>.Vincent’s University Hospital founded by<br />
Mr. Joseph Gallagher in the 1960’s has enjoyed a<br />
long <strong>and</strong> fruitful relationship with Cappagh<br />
Hospital under the auspices of The Sisters<br />
of Charity. Indeed Mr. Gallagher<br />
carried out the first Charnly total<br />
hip replacement in Cappagh<br />
Total Attendances 2398 2475<br />
<strong>St</strong>.Laurence’s Ward is at the core of the fracture service. Ms.<br />
Gillian Fields <strong>and</strong> her <strong>St</strong>aff ensure efficient movement of patients<br />
through their treatment in a professional <strong>and</strong> caring manner.