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Oct 2018
According to figures from NHS Digital, nearly 30 per cent of labour in England is induced, which is a rise from one in five ten years ago. Experts have said that the increasing numbers of overweight and older mothers is behind the trend. NHS data shows that in the year 2017-18, natural labours occurred in…
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Oct 2018
A new nerve-stimulating battery-powered implant is to be made available to patients in the UK with severe heart failure, offering hope to patients where standard treatments provide no relief. The implant, known as Barostim Neo, is sited in the chest below the collar-bone. A wire protruding from a small generator is connected beneath the patient’s…
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Oct 2018
The Apgar scoring system has been tested on newborns since 1952. The name represents an acronym (appearance, pulse, grimace, activity and respiration) and tests corresponding to these criteria take place one, five and ten minutes after a baby’s birth, and then a score is given of between zero and ten, ten being the maximum score,…
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Oct 2018
The £2million Da Vinci Xi robot has been used to operate on a patient who needed to undergo major cancer surgery, involving a full pelvic extraction. The eight hour procedure, which usually necessitates at least one surgeon and three assistants, involved two surgeons who controlled the robot from consoles several feet away. Shahnawaz Rasheed, a…
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Oct 2018
It was recently announced that Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley is currently being investigated in relation to the deaths of 54 patients in their A&E department within the first six months of this year. The inquiry to establish the circumstances of the deaths has been opened by Mike Bewick, former deputy chief executive of NHS…
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Oct 2018
A report has stated that patients with suspected sepsis were left waiting 11 hours for life-saving treatment at a scandal-hit A&E unit. An independent inquiry is currently ongoing into the Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley following the deaths of dozens of patients there. This new evidence has found that patients who are showing signs of…
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