Organisation: Irish Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery

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Patients travelling overseas for surgery warned of risks

Don't assume normal safeguards apply in other countries, says Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Tue, 06 Dec, 2022

Two-thirds of faulty hips were fitted in private hospitals

Private hospitals carried out more than two-thirds of the surgeries involving the use of two defective hip implant devices as a result of which almost 300 patients in Ireland require a second operation.

Tue, 14 Feb, 2012

Younger people more likely to have received hip replacement unit

YOUNGER and more active people are those more likely to have received the artificial hip replacement system found to have a higher failure rate, it emerged yesterday.

Sat, 28 Aug, 2010

Organisation: Irish Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery

Patients travelling overseas for surgery warned of risks

Two-thirds of faulty hips were fitted in private hospitals

Younger people more likely to have received hip replacement unit

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Mick Clifford

Organisation: Irish Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery

Patients travelling overseas for surgery warned of risks

Two-thirds of faulty hips were fitted in private hospitals

Younger people more likely to have received hip replacement unit

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Mick Clifford

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