Integrated Theatres
Thanks to the generous support at our Winter Ball we funded new equipment for our theatres department, which will dramatically improve the capture of endoscopic images during surgery.
Children's Champions helped to fund Integrated Theatres at our Winter Ball event in 2019
Thanks to the support of Children's Champions and attendees of the Winter Ball in 2019 we have funded nine new integrated operating theatres at Sheffield Children’s.
The project, will help world-leading surgeons share their knowledge worldwide by enabling operations to be broadcast internationally. Funded entirely by charity donations, the specialist equipment enables the integration of both flexible and rigid surgical telescopes into the operating theatres. It is also complete with a specialist HD camera system, which is four times the resolution of the existing system.
The generosity of the community has always helped Sheffield Children’s services to be the very best they can be and these technological advancements, above and beyond NHS provision, will support surgical outcomes for years to come.
May's story
Four-year-old May Ogden’s stomach does not tolerate any feed or milk going into it. Instead, she retches and vomits. May’s persistent vomiting meant that she was not getting the nutrition she needed to grow. Shortly before her second birthday in July 2018, May was referred to Sheffield Children’s. Within days, she had an operation to insert a feeding tube directly into the stomach to ensure that she could gain more weight and in January 2020, May had a pioneering procedure to resolve the problem using the new Integrated Theatres system thanks to your donations. Mr Richard Lindley, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Sheffield Children’s explains: “Currently when we perform a procedure like May’s, the gastroenterologist and the surgeon use different sets of monitors. “With the integrated theatre system, everyone can see what the other operator can see, and the level of detail and clarity it provides will make these operations quicker and safer. For example, we will be able to better avoid blood vessels and reduce bleeding as a result.”
