Trust Today June 2012 - Bradford Teaching Hospitals

Trust
Today
Welcome to the latest edition of
Trust Today which is packed full of
your stories with news from around
the hospitals.
We always welcome your news -
whether big or small - so if you have
a story please email communications
manager, Jason Joy (ext 4022) or
communications offi cer, Tanya Tarry
(ext 4700).
Art gallery
From engaging school
children to brightening up
corridors, fi nd out what
the governors have been
getting up to. Pg3
Heartbeat
The BRI becomes the fi rst
hospital in the world to use
a new heart monitor. Pg5
Lesley’s win
A St Luke’s award winning
nurse strikes again! Pg7
Text me
Find out more about the
new outpatients text
reminder service being
rolled out. Pg10
Going Digital
Pg5
Doctors at our hospitals
could soon be using iPads to
check patient records. Read
more inside. Pg13
Party Time
It’s Born in Bradford’s 5th
birthday party on July 6 so
make a date in your diary
and let’s celebrate! Pg16
Dignity First
A new dignity room has
opened on ward 30 to
provide clothing to all
patients admitted in an
emergency. Pg21
2 Trust Today June 2012
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YOU HAVE
1 NEW MESSAGE(S)
BRADFORD DOCTOR FIRST
IN COUNTY TO USE NEW
METHOD FOR TREATING
GALLSTONES
Consultant gastroenterologist, Dr Conrad Beckett, has
become the fi rst in Yorkshire to use a new technique to
shatter gallstones in patients.
Gallstones are stones, usually
made of cholesterol, that form
in the gallbladder. In most cases
they do not cause any pain however in
a small number of cases gallstones can
become trapped, leading to a variety of
symptoms, including sudden intense pain
in the abdomen, nausea and vomiting and
jaundice.
Older people are more likely to develop
them and women are two or three times
more likely to get them.
Traditionally, patients needing treatment
for gallstones have faced major surgery
and hospital stays of up to ten days, or
frequent visits to hospital for treatment to
put in stents.
Now the Foundation Trust has invested
£50,000 in the new SpyGlass equipment,
making it one of only eight centres in the
country carrying out the new procedure.
SpyGlass consists of a baby endoscope
- a tiny fl exible tube and eye piece to see
inside the body - which can pass up a
standard endoscope and into the bile duct
to directly visualise abnormalities.
Tiny forceps can then be used by the
doctor to take a biopsy, to aid diagnosis and
management of disease or a lithotripter - a
device which emits electrohydraulic shock
waves - can pass up the baby scope to
shatter gallstones.
It will be used on patients who have
stones which can’t be removed surgically or
using standard endoscopic techniques.
Dr Beckett, who has 18 years’
experience, trained on the equipment
in Aintree, Liverpool, and was the fi rst
doctor in Bradford to use the new SpyGlass
technology.
He said: “SpyGlass is a procedure which
is lower risk for the patient and can be done
as a day case. It takes about an hour-anda-half
for a big stone and because it is not
comfortable for the patient it is done under
general anaesthetic.
“The fi rst procedure went very well and
we crushed a big stone nicely. Hopefully the
patient won’t have to come back again.
“We are talking about doing a couple
of cases a month and will start with the
backlog of our own patients and will then
be happy to take referrals from across
Yorkshire.”