Useful Information SIVH

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Drs. Gemma Kelleher and Gerry McCarthy have commitments to the Emergency Department in SIVUH.

• The most regularly required specialties available on-site in the SIVH are:
  • General Medicine, General Surgery, Anaesthetics, Radiology, ENT, Gynaecology.Other specialties which may be consulted are: Dermatology, Oncology, Endocrinology, Rheumatology. Link to localion of specialties across Cork Here).
  • The Sexual Assault Unit for Southern Health Board region is located at SIVH. (Referral form)
• There is no Orthopaedic Service on-site.
  • If a definite limb fracture suitable for outpatient management is diagnosed in ED at SIVH, the patient can be referred directly to a Fracture Clinic in CUH (Referral Form).
  • If you have the slightest doubt about the initial management of any fracture, please contact your registrar, consultant, the ED registrar on duty in CUH or the orthopaedic service directly while the patient is still in the department.
• There are no CT services available “after hours” in the SIVH.
  • If you need immediate CT services please contact the ED at CUH to organise safe transfer of your patient.
• There is no In-patient Paediatric Service available in SIVH.
  • Any children who present with medical problems that require paediatric assessment will be assessed and transferred to the Mercy University Hospital or on to CUH.
• Similarly, there is no Neurology, Urology, Ophthalmology or Emergency Plastic Surgery service in SIVH. Neurology and Urology operate a rota, which alternates between CUH and MUH.
• There is no resident psychiatrist at SIVH. However, there is a visiting psychiatrist.
  • Patients presenting with deliberate self-harm are seen by a crisis nurse after appropriate resuscitation, who will decide whether or not further psychiatric assessment / intervention / admission is required.

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