Cardiac Surgery at Belfast Trust
A Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Service
The cardiac surgery team in the Belfast Trust have performed the first Personalised External Aortic Root Support (PEARS) operation in Ireland. The team led by Mr A Graham and Dr D Glasgow performed the successful operation this week. The surgical Continue reading Belfast team performs first PEARS operation in Ireland.
In a signficant service improvement initiative, a booklet containing up to date protocols for in-patient cardiac surgery has been prepared and will be released on 11th November 2016. The aim of this information booklet is to help all cardiologists and Continue reading Preoperative Optimisation Booklet Released
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