*Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, U.K.; †Department of Clinical Pharmacology, CSU Vall Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; ‡Clinic for Internal Medicine, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; §Maria Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; QHygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece; ¶Unite de Pharmacologie Clinique, Lyon, France; **Research Forum, Ulleval University Hospital, Osl...

This is a retrospective record of the analgesic management during labour of 16 patients with spina bifida seen at Leicester Royal Infirmary Maternity Hospital between March 1994 and February 1996. The information highlights the potential difficulties in providing epidural analgesia for this patient group, and demonstrates how an antenatal pre-anaesthetic clinic can help to optimize pain managem...

BACKGROUND Establishing day-case surgery as the preferred hospital admission route for all eligible patients requires adequate preoperative assessment of patients in order to quickly distinguish those who will require minimum assessment and are suitable for day-case admission from those who will require more extensive management and will need to be admitted as inpatients. METHODS As part of a...

This study reports on the value of head injury instruction cards as purveyors of information to patients. Patients over 10 years old attending the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary Accident and Emergency Department with a mild head injury were invited to attend a special brain injury follow-up clinic, where they were asked to complete a questionnaire. Patients failing to attend this clinic we...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the amount and nature of adult facial trauma in Aberdeen, Scotland's third largest city, that requires referral to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary oral and maxillofacial surgery department by the Emergency Department and Grampian's telemedicine service over a six month period. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective audit using oral and maxillofacial surgery trauma clinic and the...

the modern infirmary is the evolutional product of the dialectic interface between medical theories at each time and the outcome of their application in clinical practice. the infirmary as we know it today did not exist during antiquity, but the different precursors of the modern hospital emerged as a result of the interaction between medical theory and practice. during antiquity the hippocrati...

OBJECTIVE: Determine whether dexamethasone treatment added to salbutamol reduces time to readiness for discharge in patients with bronchiolitis and possible asthma. METHODS:We compared efficacy and safety of dexamethasone, 1 mg/kg, then 0.6 mg/kg for 4 more days, with placebo for acute bronchiolitis in patients with asthma risk, as determined by eczema or a family history of asthma in a first-d...

ON 20 May I 767, a meeting was held at the New Inn at Leeds to 'consider of the Expediency of an Infirmary'. It was unanimously agreed 'That a Parochial Infirmary in this Place will be of great Utility'. At a meeting in June it was further agreed that the proposed infirmary should serve not only the parish of Leeds but 'that the Infirmary intended to be erected be declared a General One' and it...

Abstract Aim To evaluate the efficacy of Virtual Fracture Clinic (VFC) in terms patient satisfaction and clinical outcome, pre during COVID at Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI). The impact pandemic on quality management was assessed by comparing two sets patients who (1) presented to clinic when British Orthopaedic Association Standards for Trauma Orthopaedics (BOAST) COVID-19 guidelines were first...