The Evening Times ran an article about figures in a new report showing that women from Lanarkshire experience higher-than-average rates of stillbirth and neonatal deaths than other parts of Scotland. The region recorded the second-highest rate in Scotland with 6.42 deaths per 1,000 births. However it is worth noting that the figure of 7,096 Lanarkshire resident […]
Shining light on ear surgery
An NHS Lanarkshire trainee has been recognised at the second World Congress on Endoscopic Ear Surgery in Italy.
Rhona Sproat won the ‘Young Doctors Competition Award’ for presenting a study on image quality and the effect of light in key hole endoscopic ear surgery.
The study, supervised by Consultant ENT surgeon Dr Arun Iyer, examined images at four different light intensities. These images were then sent to eight world experts. The results showed that using 10 per cent light provided a better image.
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