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An overview on all aspects of child protection and safeguarding and the specific responsibilities for anaesthesia teams.

A cataract forms when the natural lens in your eye becomes cloudy. Modern surgery allows the damaged lens to be removed and replaced with an artificial lens.

Biography of Dr Hugh Edwin Richard Chew

A cystoscopy is a procedure in which a thin telescope (called a cystoscope) is used to look inside your bladder. This is inserted through the urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the outside of the body.

A hernia is a lump that forms when fatty tissue or part of your intestine (gut) pushes through a weakness in the muscle wall of your abdomen or top of your thigh.

A hysteroscopy is an operation to look at the inside of your womb (uterus). A narrow telescope (called a hysteroscope) lets your surgeon look at the inside of your womb.

A knee arthroscopy is a type of keyhole surgery. Your surgeon will put a narrow telescope through a small cut in your skin to look inside your knee joint.

A knee replacement is an operation in which your knee joint is replaced with an artificial joint. Most people stay in hospital for three to five days after knee replacement surgery.

An interactive guide for novice trainees.

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