District Nursing Sister Attached to Hospital Surgical Department

Planned surgical admissions in a district hospital.

Epsom District Hospital, which has 527 beds, serves a population of about 172 000 in the Mid-Surrey District. At the start of the trial the unit had 22 acute adult beds and a variable number of children's beds in the main hospital. There is a preconvalescent hospital seven miles away where a further four or five beds may be available. These are for patients who have had operations but who are n...

Ophthalmic emergencies in a district general hospital casualty department.

A survey of ophthalmic emergencies attending the casualty department of a district general hospital over a 12-month period is presented. The total number of new casualty attendances was 30,649 of which 1870 (6.1%) presented with an ophthalmic problem. There was a 3 to 1 male to female preponderance and a peak age of presentation between 20 and 30 years. The main aetiological factors were trauma...

Aids to Surgical Nursing

Surgical management of ectopic pregnancy in a district general hospital.

The mainstay of management of ectopic pregnancies is laparoscopic surgery. Other treatment options include open laparotomy, methotrexate or expectant approach. Recently the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) revised its guidelines regarding management of suspected ectopic pregnancies. We undertook a retrospective study looking at management of ectopic pregnancies over a de...

Access by general practitioners to physiotherapy department of a district general hospital.

There has been much opposition, voiced most notably in the Tunbridge Report, to general-practitioner access to hospital rehabilitation services. Co-operation between general practitioners, physiotherapists, and the consultant with responsibility for the physiotherapy department at a general district hospital has provided an efficient open-access service. This service has been welcomed by the ge...