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St.Vincent’s Healthcare Group
Department of
D e r m a t o l o g y
Departmental Review
The Department of Dermatology at St Vincent’s University
Hospital together with Hume Street and St Michael’s Hospitals
provide dermatology services for patients living in the East
Coast Area Health Board and other health boards.
Dermatology Day-Care Unit
Narrowband UVB phototherapy, PUVA therapy, short contact
dithranol therapy, patient education,cryotherapy, dressings
including scalp therapy were provided by Ms Sheila Ryan and
2,494 episodes were recorded.
Staff
Consultants
Dr Paul Collins and Dr Sarah Rogers
Outpatient clinics
98
Specialist Registrar
(St Vincent’s/St Michael’s)
Registrar
(Hume St/St Vincent’s)
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)
Ms Sheila Ryan
Dr Marina O Kane (SpR3) January-June
Dr Sinead Langan (SpR3) July - D e c e m b e r
Dr Rupert Barry January-December
Administrative Assistants
Mrs Eileen Cusack
Mrs Brenda Harte (both half time)
Clinical service
Inpatients
There were 98 St Vincent’s dermatology clinics at which 2,542
patients (new referrals = 755) were treated.There were 49 St
Michael’s dermatology clinics at which 786 patients (328 new
referrals) were treated. Outpatient investigation and therapy
including cryotherapy, diagnostic punch biopsy, four layer
bandaging,wart dressings/treatments, wound care and light
cautery for macrocomedones was provided for 492 patients at
SVUH and 224 patients at SMH.
Patients were referred to Hume St hospital for photodynamic
therapy, patch testing and phototherapy/PUVA and there were
14,206 patient episodes.There were 637 new and 3615 return
patients seen at clinics in the outpatients and in day-care.
99
Twenty-one patients were admitted as urgent cases. Patients
with chronic stable skin conditions,including psoriasis and atopic
eczema,requiring five day elective inpatient dermatology
nursing, were admitted to Hume St Hospital (276 patients).
331 patients at St Vincent’s and 36 patients at St Michael’s had
inpatient dermatology consultation for medical and surgical
teams. Twenty-four of these patients required significant
ongoing dermatology inpatient management at St Vincent’s.
Day-care
Extramural Theatre
Day case surgery, predominantly for non-melanoma skin cancer
and atypical melanocytic naevi,was performed for 137 patients
at extramural theatre.
Postgraduate and undergraduate education
Higher Specialist training for specialist registrars in dermatology
and General Professional training for senior house officers
was provided at St Vincent’s and Hume St Hospitals.There
was a weekly postgraduate dermatology session with
dermatologists from St James’s and Adelaide/Meath
Hospitals comprising journal club and
combined clinical case meeting at Hume
Street on Wednesday morning. The
fortnightly histopathology
meeting took place at St
Vincent’s University
Hospital.
St Mark’s Ward
There were thirty-eight patient episodes for infusions of
infliximab and immunoglobulin as day case patients.