ROTUNDA LYING-IN HOSPITAL, DUBLIN.

An Analysis of 675 Cases of Puerperal Morbidity Treated in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin

P?st-graduate Student, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin. Pattern1 January 1921 to June 1927, 11,638 Accord Were confi,1C(l in the Rotunda Hospital. Britj 1 lnA t? one of the standards of the 1 Medical Association, 675 of them were morbid during the puerperinm. Only two cases were admitted for treatment of sepsis which were not attended by the hospital. This gives a morbidity rate of 5.8 per cent, durin...

Coombe Lying-in Hospital, Dublin; clinical report for the year 1956.

Clinical report of the Rotunda Hospital.

Measurement of lying and standing blood pressure in hospital.

Measuring lying and standing blood pressure (BP) is an important clinical observation in older hospital inpatients. This is because a drop in BP on standing, known as orthostatic hypotension (OH) is common in older people and in acute illness and, therefore, in hospital patients. OH increases the risk of a fall in hospital. Simple measures such as changes in medication or rehydration can reduce...

A summary of 100 vaginal deliveries in the Rotunda Hospital following previous caesarean section.

THESE notes concern the labours of IOO women between the ages of 19 and 45 years (average 32 years) who had been previously delivered by Caesarean section either in this hospital or elsewhere. A commentary sums up our present views on the use of primary Caesarean section and the problem of whether a repeat Caesarean or a trial labour should be chosen as the method of delivery in a subsequent pr...