Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland

Dr. Allan Goldman:

First of all, nothing is ever one thing when you have a thing of this scale. There were clinical issues in the Boston report that were very specific technical issues that needed to change, and we changed those immediately. There were other system issues, as I outlined earlier, and I could go through those, that needed changing as well. It was a raft of things that we needed to change, but there were very clearly technical issues with the operation that were leading to some of the complications in the most high-risk group. It was about the use of a short structure instead of a standard-----

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