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Data on maternal deaths
The Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries (CMACE) was established in April 2009. Located in the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre at Cork University Maternity Hospital, CMACE Ireland works...
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Forceps ‘most probably’ caused skull fracture
A PAEDIATRICIAN treating a newborn baby who suffered a massive bleed between his skull and scalp following birth told an inquest in Dublin he had seen a case like it just once in his 12 years working...
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Losing a baby during pregnancy
“The blankness in my brain was gone. The labour pain was gone too. I was beginning to cry. The midwife asked me if she should baptise him. I said yes. I would do anything that would let him rest in...
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Tragic case demonstrates moral minefield faced by doctors
Declan Keane, obstetrician at the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street, Dublin, points out that most miscarriages occur in the first trimester of pregnancy. The focus of doctors will always be...
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Hospital consultant says Caesarean rates ‘almost a national crisis’
Caesarean rates in Ireland are “far too high,” one of the country’s foremost obstetricians has said. Dr Declan Keane, a former master of the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street and currently...
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