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Concern over drug used before birth
Solicitors argued that the medical team continued to administer Syntocinon, a form of artificial oxytocin used to speed up delivery, when it should have been stopped because the foetal heartbeat was...
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Coroner recommends drawing up guidelines for use of drugs in difficult...
A coroner has recommended the drawing-up of guidelines for maternity units to govern the use of drugs used to speed up difficult deliveries. Co Laois coroner Eugene O’Connor said he was surprised there...
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Mater hospital to comply with legislation
The Mater Hospital in Dublin has said it will comply with the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013. In a brief statement issued yesterday the hospital said it would comply with the Act, which...
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Sam Coulter Smith raises concerns over whether report will be acted on
The master of the Rotunda Hospital has said he is concerned about the extent to which the Health and Information and Quality Authority report into the death of Savita Halappanvar will be acted on,...
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Parents of stillborns often fear autopsy, research finds
Fear of their child undergoing further invasive procedures is reflected in the poor autopsy uptake rate, with just half of stillborns undergoing a postmortem, despite the valuable information it can...
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Maternity hospitals dictate method of delivery
At St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny, 38% of births were by C-section, making it the highest rate in the country and double that of the lowest — 19% at Sligo General Hospital. Nationally, the C-section...
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The Obstetrician –‘I knew what I did was the right thing for the patient’
AT THE time of the case that landed him in court, Prof Richard Greene was a senior registrar. “There was a very genuine complication in the case in question, it involved an unusual bladder injury...
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Guidelines on foetus size ‘will change obstetrics’
New guidelines which will help doctors distinguish between foetuses with a potentially fatal growth restriction and “normally small” babies will “change obstetrics completely”, according to the chair...
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Doctors need more support to deal with stillbirths
Doctors endure a maelstrom of emotion such as fear, remorse, sadness, loss, discomfort and anger after delivering a stillborn baby, according to the first research study into the impact of stillbirth...
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Hospital consultant says Caesarean rates ‘almost a national crisis’
Caesarean rates in Ireland are “far too high,” one of the country’s foremost obstetricians has said. Dr Declan Keane, a former master of the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street and currently...
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