Pilomatricoma: Experience of The Hospital for Sick Children

Pilomatricoma: experience of the hospital for sick children.

BACKGROUND Pilomatricoma (calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe) is a common skin neoplasm in the pediatric population that is often misdiagnosed as other skin conditions or tumours. OBJECTIVES The objective of the present retrospective study was to review the clinical and histopathological presentation of this neoplasm in children. METHODS The records of the pathology department at The Hospit...

The Belfast Hospital for Sick Children

THE staff of the Belfast Hospital for Sick Children for many years have been working under the most difficult and trying conditions. The hospital was built over half a century ago, and had become pitifully antiquated; the out-patient department was so congested that satisfactory work had become a physical impossibility, while the old equipment and long-since-obsolete type of operating-theatres ...

The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto

Implementation of a pediatric rapid response team: experience of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Rapid Response Systems have been introduced in the last decade to increase patient safety and decrease the rate of cardiorespiratory arrest on the hospital wards and readmission to the intensive care units. In this article we share our experience at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto on implementation and evolution of a pediatric rapid response team; the process, barriers, and ongoing ch...

Paediatric femoral fractures--the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children experience.

From the charts, the following general data was recorded for each patient: age, gender, affected side(s), referringaccidentandemergencydepartment, monthofadmission, relevant orthopaedic historyand duration of inpatient stay. Specific to the femoral fracture the following datawas recorded: mechanism of injury, associated injuries, whether the fracture was open or closed, the presence of neurovas...