Urgently-needed, complex spinal surgeries at Temple Street children’s hospital have been paused since last year after an increase in complications was identified by staff.
An external clinical review of all complex surgeries carried out in the hospital over the past three years on children with spina bifida has been commissioned.
The review is being carried out by experts from Boston Children’s hospital and is expected to be presented to Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) in mid-July.
CHI says it decided to pause kyphectomy surgery on children with spinal bifida, which corrects rounding of the upper back, as this is the most complex type of spinal surgery in this group.
