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FOR THE FIRST time in Ireland, a woman has achieved a second full term pregnancy having had a procedure carried out by robotic surgery prior to pregnancy.
Last year Anne and her husband Patrick became parents to baby Lucy who was born at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) after Anne was one of the first women in Europe assisted in a successful pregnancy by the robotic surgery.
The procedure was carried out at the Cork hospital before pregnancy and one year on Anne has given birth to another baby girl. This is the first time in Ireland that a woman has had two births following the procedure.
Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at CUMH, Dr Barry O’Reilly explained that the complex procedure is used to assist women carry their babies to full term.
When a woman’s cervix is weak (sometimes called an incompetent cervix) the woman is likely to have a pregnancy loss because the cervix begins to open in early pregnancy with resulting miscarriage. In order to prevent this devastating problem from recurring, we can perform a surgical procedure before a further pregnancy called an interval abdominal cervical cerclage (stitch) to keep the cervix closed for the future.
“A closed cervix helps a developing baby to remain inside the uterus until the mother reaches 37-38 weeks of pregnancy and the baby is then delivered by elective Caesarean section so that the stitch can stay in position for future pregnancies,” he said.
In most hospitals this procedure is performed through an open abdominal incision requiring a long hospital stay and recovery period. However in CUMH it is carried out via ‘da Vinci robotic surgery’ which O’Reilly said involves less pain and scarring, reduced risk of infection, reduced blood loss and fewer transfusions. He said it also means a quicker recovery time and discharge for hospital for women.
The hospital performed the first robotic gynaecological surgical procedure in Great Britain and Ireland in 2007.
Da Vinci procedure
With the da Vinci robotic-assisted surgery, miniscule incisions are made in which a tiny camera and surgical instruments are inserted into the patient’s body.
The instruments are attached to the robotic arms and controlled remotely by the surgeon who sits at a computer console, manipulating the controls while viewing an enlarged 3D image of the surgical site.
The robotic arms allow a full 360 degree rotation and eliminates the natural tremor in the surgeons hands. A final hallmark of the da Vinci system is its fail-safe design incorporating multiple, redundant safety features that minimise the risk for human error when compared with traditional approaches.
Speaking after the birth of her second child Zoey yesterday, Anne O’Mahoney said “I am most grateful for the intervention of the da Vinci robot surgical system which has helped me to have two successful pregnancies and given me two beautiful girls.”
Proud father Patrick said their healthy baby daughter “is a wondering early Christmas present” for the family.
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Not much come back if he’s 98. He’s lived his life
98 or 108 he still deserves to die in jail.
If found guilty of course. Funny how trial by media assumes everyone guilty until proven innocent with no shortage of people willing to commit crimes themselves in order to ensure revenge.
HE died 6 weeks after the trial, Did your read the article?
It must never ever be forgotten that SF/IRA supported the Nazis.
What goes around, comes around
Hahahaha
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Whilst on this tack so did the catholic church
The church did not support the Nazis in fact they broke centuries of tradition by releasing an encyclical in the German language to be read in Germnay so there was no misunderstanding.
It was called ‘Mit brennender Sorge’
Well said Sean but I think your factual knowledge falls on deaf ears with the usual anti catholic bigots.
The catholic church along with the Lutheran Church were the only churches to condemn the Nazis. Except for the Jewish faith of course
bigjake, there a plenty of reasons to dislike the Church,but I just hate when people don’t know the actual facts.
The Catholic Church helped leading Nazis escape to South America, and they openly supported the Fascist regimes in Italy and Spain. In fact they were given the Vatican by Mussolini in return for full support if you want to look it up.
Also, only one Nazi was ever excommunicated by the Catholic Church, Joseph Goebbels Nazi Minister for Propaganda. Why? – Because he married a divorced Protestant. Consider that Hitler was also a Catholic and was never excommunicated.
”It must never ever be forgotten that SF/IRA supported the Nazis.”
As did the Vatican – and many US industrialists eg Joe Kennedy
The Church also helped thousands of Jews and other ‘undesirables’ escape all throughout Europe. The true extent of which we will probably never know because the priests involved never wrote about it. And the Roman Question as it was called was resolved by the Lateran Treaty and it did end with the Church gaining the Vatican but if you knew anything about the Lateran treaty yould know the whole argument went much further back than the Fascist Italian government.
Hitler may have been baptized a Catholic but he cetainly wasn’t one and his close friend Albert Speer remarked about how he made harsh pronouncements against the Church to his political associates.
Should then read “The Rat Run” to see how the Vatican was complict in smuggling Nazis out to South America and the USA under “operation paperclip.”
Only reason the church released that in Germany was because Adolf was breaking their grip on German society..Hitler introduced the hated ,and still collected today German Church Tax [Kirchen steuer] to deprive the church of its monies that it was shovelling into its coffers as usual.
Wow! So that makes it ok then?
I don’t know how these people lived with themselves all these years knowing that they had a hand in the deaths of all those innocent people. I feel sorry for their families who have to live with the knowledge that their loved one was a murderer and have to deal with the backlash.
He not guilty yet.
Most if not all will proably tell you they dont lose much sleep over it.Not because they are psychopaths or callous,and admittedly there were plenty of those too.
But because they had no choice in the matter and were under orders to do so in a wartime situation. For a cause that they belived in,or not at the time.Its difficult to understand this ,unless you have been in their situation at the time. We can all say 60 years on well why didnt they protest to their superiors?Or help these people escape? Your superiors would have laughed at you at best ,or have had you taken out and shot for being a traitor,and if found out that you were helping them ,you would praobly have been tortured,then shot if you were lucky.
Backlash, not really…Dr Josef Mengele for example,the doctor of Auuschwitz his family and decendents make agricultural machinery in Germany today.Ironically their biggest export client is Israel!!!
Simon, I think you are probably right in that many of those guilty of these terrible crimes had moved on with their own lives, this fact wasn’t helped by administration failures and complicity by powerful people.
The greater reality for us is that there are a great many guilty of genocide in the much more recent past living comfortable lives, and they answer to no one. Many still have active, successful political careers .
We won’t even begin to smell justice until they are locked up
Quite comfortably I’d say Shirley unfortunately.
Sorry Apu… He is guilty…. He was found guilty in 1948 and sentenced to death absentia. This usually means that the individual was not available. The courts use evidence, witnessess and holds a trial. They normally have prosecuters and defence lawyers. So he was found guilty once.
When information was disclosed to the Canadian authorities…. He again went before the system. Instead of inprisoning him and running up a full trial… The sent him back to his country of orgin. So he was found guilty for the second time.
Now he is being investigated for the third time.
How much more do you need?
Apu they have had 60+ years to investigate I would hope after all that time they would get the right man.
@Simon Jester. I don’t think you are correct. The Nazis only put hardened people on duty in the concentration camps. The holocaust began on the Eastern front, and it was those people who had taken part in the savagery on the Eastern front, hardened murders, who were put on duty in concentration camps etc. They followed their orders with enthusiasm. Also following orders wasn’t a requirement, those who disagreed with what they were doing at Auschwitz etc could request to be transferred. The following orders stuff only applies to people who were indirectly involved, like those who operated the train signals, those who sent the supplies to the death camps, those who took part in the building of roads and railroads etc etc, but for those directly involved the,” I was only following orders argument” is pure BS.
They had no choice?? I would die before carrying out these inhuman acts!
He believed he was doing good, strange as it may seem to any rational person.
And you would have…Along with your family too..Easy to say you would rather die and all that.Different when you are actually IN that situation…
@ Dave.
It is questionable whether the Nazis put hardned people in as gaurds in the camps.The records show a remarkable low amount of actual German military forces doing the gaurding for such a large prision pouplation.Most of the enforcement seems to have been done by Kapos or loyal prisioners of the different ethnic groups.The ratio is aomthing like 200 German gaurds to 500 KAPOS to X tens of thousands of prisioners.
Sorry following orders was a serious requirement in any situation in Nazi Germany and its occupied countries..You were expendable and requesting a transfer as a German gaurd,would proably have got you on a penal battalion on the Russian front as cannon fodder,or some other nastier life threatning duty.At best a serious mark on your record of “moral cowardice” or “unfit for work of national importance” It wouldnt have got you a cushy number in Berlin that’s for sure.
It is total and utter BS to sit here 70 years ago and pontificate on what we “would have done,” or judge these people too harshly either.We werent there,have never lived in those times and hopefully never will live in them again,or have the remotest concept what it is like to live under a total military dictatorship where you didnt dare express a dissenting opinion in front of your own family or friends about the regime,or complain about anything privately or publicly.
Least of all when you were in uniform and had sworn absolute loyalty to Adolf Hitler personally,and not to Germany.Only following orders is not an excuse granted,when you have options to avoid doing this illegal task.Not when you have a gun pointed at the back of your head as well.
….and our beloved Gov sent a message of condolance on the death of Hitler, and only very recently pardoned Irish Srrvice Men who went to fight the Nazi.
As Stanley Millgram’s famous obedience experiment showed, the majority of people are as bad as, if not worse than, the Nazis.
https://truthandconsequences1.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/the-wannsee-species/
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