Annual report of the Board of Management : 1946.

  • Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest.
Date:
1946
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Credit: Annual report of the Board of Management : 1946. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    All A.P. Cases were Classified on Discharge :—• Cases. Result. Work. Light Work. No Work. Improved ... 161 99 33 29 184 Stationary ... 9 — _ 9 Worse 7 — — 7 Died 7 — —— 7 One case, admitted for division of adhesions only, not included in results. Complications occurring in all A.P. Cases :— Empyema ... ... ... ... ... 3 Spontaneous pneumothorax ... ... 4 Obliterative pleurisy ... ... ... 2 Division of Adhesions. Thoracoscopy without division of adhesions was carried out 9 times, and division of adhesions was carried out 142 times. Seven patients required 2 operations and two .3 operations In addition 4 patients had adhesions divided on each side, and two patients had adhesions divided twice on one side and once on the other. The following complications occurred :— Haemothorax ... ... ... ... 4 Empyema ... ... ... ... ... 7 Diaphragmatic Paralysis. Fifteen were admitted with this operation already carried out and 35 cases were performed at the Royal National Hospital. In 17 of these it was in addition to a pneumothorax (the results of these are included under the heading of pneumothorax cases). In addition, this operation had been carried out on both sides in one case, before admission. The results of the 35 cases operated on here were :— T.B. Dos. on admission ... 23 T.B. Pos. on discharge ... 14 (4 transferred for thora¬ coplasty, one for further surgical treatment and 5 died.)