The provision of a cardio catheterisation laboratory at Sligo University Hospital is needed uregently.
For a STEMI patient arriving at Sligo University Hospital (complete blockage of an Artery) today or tonight, it is clinically recommended they are treated in 120 minutes.
They are in most cases transferred to University College Hospital via helicopter if; 1)the copter is available 2)weather friendly to fly and 3)if Galway has capacity to take the patient. An ambulance is the secondary option if a copter isn't available. It takes at minimum 135 minutes to get from SUH to UCHG.
Could someone tell me how this is safe?
From Sligo University Hospital we transfer 200 patients to St Vincent's in Dublin and University College Hospital in Galway for standard stenting procedures alone per year even though there is capacity to deliver such service in SUH.
For the people of Sligo, Leitrim, North Roscommon, North Mayo, West Cavan and South Donegal, provision of emergency Cardiac Care is unsafe.
A CATH Lab at Sligo University Hospital would save the taxpayer millions. It is currently costing €330,000 per annum for the current mobile angiography unit which visits Sligo once day per week. The transport cost of transporting cardiac patients from Sligo via ambulance and helicopter is €220,000 per year. In short over a 10 year period there would be a net saving of investment in a CATH lab in Sligo to the health service of €3.6million. This does not include the cost of accommodating patients who are awaiting transfer to other hospitals in Dublin or Galway at a cost of €1000 per bed per day.
Approval for a Cardiac Catheterisation Lab at Sligo would not only result in an enhanced quality of service for cardiac patients but also result in a reduction of numbers of patients on trolleys at SRH by freeing up the much needed beds. It would also lead to enhanced funding for the hospital under the national activity based funding model.
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June 29, 2017
Two hundred and fifty signatures. The message is finally loud and clear.
Reached 250 supporters
June 28, 2017
Reached 100 supporters
June 25, 2017
73 Comments
We need this lab in sligo too many services have been taken away from our area and it's time we got them back!! My own father in law had a heart attack and from the time playing a huge part in his luck as I'll call it not as many are as lucky to make Galway!!
Absolutely essential . Current angiogram service only runs on a Wednesday and does not provide stents.
My uncle died as a result of poor cardiac services in Sligo university hospital would not like to see anybody else die as a result
As a patient who has had a scare regarding this service, no ambulance available but for the fact I had private insurance I would have had to wait and it could have been serious.
I used to work in CCU sligo as a nurse and am very much aware of the volume of patients in the north west needing urgent angiograms and stenting and instead have to either wait (and ending up having 90% coronary blockages) or having to be airlifted or driven by ambulance in an unstable condition. This could be your relative at any time. Please sign.
The North West needs a Cath lab. It's disgraceful people have to go all the way to Galway for cardiac services
Badly needed in Sligo
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The provision of a cardio catheterisation laboratory at Sligo University Hospital is needed uregently.
For a STEMI patient arriving at Sligo University Hospital (complete blockage of an Artery) today or tonight, it is clinically recommended they are treated in 120 minutes.
They are in most cases transferred to University College Hospital via helicopter if; 1)the copter is available 2)weather friendly to fly and 3)if Galway has capacity to take the patient. An ambulance is the secondary option if a copter isn't available. It takes at minimum 135 minutes to get from SUH to UCHG.
Could someone tell me how this is safe?
From Sligo University Hospital we transfer 200 patients to St Vincent's in Dublin and University College Hospital in Galway for standard stenting procedures alone per year even though there is capacity to deliver such service in SUH.
For the people of Sligo, Leitrim, North Roscommon, North Mayo, West Cavan and South Donegal, provision of emergency Cardiac Care is unsafe.
A CATH Lab at Sligo University Hospital would save the taxpayer millions. It is currently costing €330,000 per annum for the current mobile angiography unit which visits Sligo once day per week. The transport cost of transporting cardiac patients from Sligo via ambulance and helicopter is €220,000 per year. In short over a 10 year period there would be a net saving of investment in a CATH lab in Sligo to the health service of €3.6million. This does not include the cost of accommodating patients who are awaiting transfer to other hospitals in Dublin or Galway at a cost of €1000 per bed per day.
Approval for a Cardiac Catheterisation Lab at Sligo would not only result in an enhanced quality of service for cardiac patients but also result in a reduction of numbers of patients on trolleys at SRH by freeing up the much needed beds. It would also lead to enhanced funding for the hospital under the national activity based funding model.
Updates
June 29, 2017
Two hundred and fifty signatures. The message is finally loud and clear.
Reached 250 supporters
June 28, 2017
Reached 100 supporters
June 25, 2017
73 Comments
My father faced a similar situation in Dec 2015. Carted up and down to Galway for tests a number of times via ambulance before being transferred to Galway and then on to the Mater Hospital in Dublin.
We need this lab in sligo too many services have been taken away from our area and it's time we got them back!! My own father in law had a heart attack and from the time playing a huge part in his luck as I'll call it not as many are as lucky to make Galway!!
Absolutely essential . Current angiogram service only runs on a Wednesday and does not provide stents.
My uncle died as a result of poor cardiac services in Sligo university hospital would not like to see anybody else die as a result
As a patient who has had a scare regarding this service, no ambulance available but for the fact I had private insurance I would have had to wait and it could have been serious.
I used to work in CCU sligo as a nurse and am very much aware of the volume of patients in the north west needing urgent angiograms and stenting and instead have to either wait (and ending up having 90% coronary blockages) or having to be airlifted or driven by ambulance in an unstable condition. This could be your relative at any time. Please sign.
The North West needs a Cath lab. It's disgraceful people have to go all the way to Galway for cardiac services
Badly needed in Sligo
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My father faced a similar situation in Dec 2015. Carted up and down to Galway for tests a number of times via ambulance before being transferred to Galway and then on to the Mater Hospital in Dublin.