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The First Fully Integrated Pelvic Floor Assessment Clinic Opens at London Bridge Hospital
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Date Added: Friday 11 June, 2010
Consultant colorectal Surgeon, Mr Andrew Williams has opened the first
fully integrated Pelvic Floor Assessment Clinic in the private sector at
London Bridge Hospital.
Designed to help both men and women with their life restricting,
embarrassing and often painful symptoms, the clinic treats patients with
conditions ranging damage caused during childbirth to the side
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Expansion within Cardiology and The Cardiopulmonary Centre
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Date Added: Friday 11 June, 2010
The Cardiology Department and Cardiopulmonary Centre at the London
Bridge Hospital have recently completed a major expansion and renovation
project. The ‘Pacemaker/ICD and Resynchronisation Room’ has been
refurbished to provide clear workspaces for our new computerised patient
records system and home monitoring remote patient data access system.
This room is also available to device-implanting Consultant
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Innovation at London Bridge Hospital avoids blood transfusions and aids patient recovery
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Date Added: Friday 11 June, 2010
Perfusionists at London Bridge Hospital have succeeded in reducing
the number of blood transfusions during operations by recovering and
recycling patient’s own blood.
Chief Perfusionist Alan Rayner and his team have combined a range of
specialised techniques along with the latest technology to reduce damage
to blood, and more efficient ways of recycling a patient’s blood during
a major operation, thereby reducing the level of blood loss during and
after operations.
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HCA International win four Laing and Buisson awards
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Date Added: Friday 11 June, 2010
HCA International, which owns London's six leading private hospitals
(including the London Bridge Hospital), has won four major awards at the
annual Laing and Buisson Independent Healthcare Awards on Tuesday 22nd
September 2009.
These awards are presented for outstanding achievement in the
Independent Sector provider and HCA received more awards than any other
nominated hospital group.
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Consultant led Allergy Clinic opens its doors
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Date Added: Friday 11 June, 2010
A new consultant led allergy clinic has opened at London Bridge
Hospital. The clinic is treating patients with both environmental and
food induced allergies and those for whom certain drugs become
allergens.
The allergy clinic is led by one of Europe’s most distinguished
consultants, Dr Pierre Dugué who trained and practised for many years in
Paris and on the Cote D’Azur.
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Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
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Date Added: Friday 11 June, 2010
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) is a new procedure that
has been introduced at London Bridge Hospital which can be used as an
native to standard surgical aortic valve replacement. The
procedure is performed on the beating heart without the need for a
sVERternotomy (an incision in the centre of the chest) or
cardiopulmonary bypass (takes over the function of the heart and lungs
during surgery).
The aortic valve is located between the left ventricle and the aorta,
which is the main artery that takes blood from the heart to the body.
The aortic valve has three flaps or ‘cusps.’ Blood flows through the
valve when the left ventricle contracts at the early stage of the
heartbeat. When the left ventricle relaxes the aortic valve closes and
the mitral valve (which lies between the left atrium and the left
ventricle) opens to allow more blood into the ventricle ready for the
next heartbeat.
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