INTRODUCTION The cancellation of surgery wastes theatre time and creates hardship for patients, who often plan their working and family lives around the proposed operation date. METHODS A retrospective evaluation of cancellations of scheduled elective and urgent operations was done using theatre records from May 2006 to April 2007. The reasons for cancellation were examined. RESULTS Of a to...

to the operation the patient is too much meddled with. After the usual dark-room examination the pa'.ient is put to bed, given a purge, the eye lashes and eye-briow shaved, an antiseptic dressing applied the night before operation. A weak solution of cocaine is used for the operation and several drops are put in the eye at intervals of ten mfinutes before the operation. The patient .is then bro...

Background: Patients referred with symptomatic inguinal hernias traditionally make at least three visits to the hospital and wait on average 41–53 weeks for their operation. Approximately, 10–15% of patients either do not attend (DNA) their clinic appointment, attend on the day of operation or are cancelled by the hospital due to bed shortage, lack of theatre space or associated co-morbidities....

Photography, including records taken in theatre, has an important role to play in the legal settlement of personal injury claims. Photographs taken immediately prior to an operation in the anaesthetic room or during the operation provide valuable evidence for civil litigation. The type of operations at which personal injury photographs should be taken range from emergency surgery and minor oper...

OBJECTIVE To determine re-admission rate for post-tonsillectomy pain; the primary and secondary post-tonsillectomy bleeding rate; the percentage requiring control of post-tonsillectomy bleeding in children undergoing coblation tonsillectomy. STUDY DESIGN A descriptive study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill Hospital) between 2004 and 2006. METHODOLOGY...

I hey enteied the nursing staff of the Bristol Royal Infirmary on the same day, 1 /th March, 1888, Fanny being aged 26 years and Julia 22. By September, 1892, Julia was made " Charge Nurse of Wards 1/ and 18, and she remained Sister of those wards until her retirement in 1921. In March, 1891, Fanny was put in charge of the operating theatre and was Theatre Sistei until 1912, when she took charg...

A 71-year-old woman presented with dyspnoea and irregular tachycardia. Investigation revealed the presence of pericardial effusion and left intra-auricular mass. The patient was sent to the operation theatre and after pericardial drain, the intra-atrial mass disappeared with retroactive diagnosis of left atrial appendage invagination.

Chris Baldwin, a devised theatre practitioner and co-editor of a practical guide to devising theatre, lists the devising director’s responsibilities as building a production and performance team, timetabling, compiling documentation of the rehearsal process and, crucially, fulfilling the role of spectator as the devised show is developed and rehearsed. Described by Baldwin as ‘at the centre of ...