The Mater Infirmorum Hospital.

New Operating-Theatres in the Mater Infirmorum Hospital, Belfast

A Study of Appendicectomies in Belfast in 1958

Information was obtained from a study of the charts of all patients living within the city boundary who had undergone appendicectomies in Belfast hospitals in 1958-excluding appendicectomies performed incidentally to some other operation. The sources of the cases were all Belfast hospitals at which appendicectomies are normally carried out, with the exception of private wings. Cases were distri...

A Case of Causalgia Cured by Sympathectomy

Sarah E., aged 30, was shot through the lower tlhird of the forearm by a sniper's bullet during the disturbances in Belfast in 1921. She was admitted to the Mater Infirmorum Hospital on the same (lay (July, 1921). The bullet had entered obliquely, grazed the median nlerve, fractured the radius, and come out on the dorsal surface of the forearm. The woutnd was excised, the fracture splinted, and...

Emergency Medicine in the RVH and the challenges it faces from a clinician's perspective

The National Health Service (NHS) is an organisation providing services and treatments in Primary, Secondary, Tertiary care across a spectrum of specialties. Disruptive technologies, treatments and new ways of delivery require the doctor and manager to work in an ever changing environment. Belfast like many cities across the UK needed big changes in delivering Emergency Medical Services. Prior ...

Clinical predictors of forearm fracture in children.

This study was undertaken to try to define the best clinical predictors of forearm fractures in children aged 3 to 15 years. Over an 8-month period, 136 children attending the Accident and Emergency Department of the Mater Infirmorum Hospital were enrolled in the study and 67 fractures were diagnosed. Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the fo...