Cardiac Surgery at Belfast Trust
A Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Service
A databse has been created on the Northern Ireland Electronic Care Record which will manage referrals to, and record the outcome from, the Cardiac Surgery/Cardiology MDMs held on Tuesday and Friday afternoons in the Belfast Trust. This groundbreaking development will Continue reading Cardiac Surgery MDM database now on NIECR
The first transapical trancatheter mitral valve implantation (TA-TMVI) on the island of Ireland took place on the 27 November 2013 by the RVH Cardiac Surgery team. An elderly patient who had previous cardiac surgery and other significant medical problems was not fit for Mitral Valve Continue reading Belfast Cardiac Surgery Team Performs First Trans-Apical Mitral Valve Replacement in Ireland
20 Volunteers from the Royal Victoria Hospital, friends of Nigeria, Save a Heart returned from a successful mission on the 5th April 2014 after spending two weeks performing 12 open heart operations in Enugu State, Nigeria. The Northern Ireland Continue reading Belfast Cardiac Surgery Team Returns From Another Successful Charity Mission to Nigeria