The mother of a six-year-old boy who was implanted with a non-medical grade spring during spinal surgery in Temple Street children’s hospital has been told the spring appears to be “disintegrating/unravelling” and needs to be removed.
The Utrecht company developing the world’s only spring implant for children with scoliosis said they had no prior knowledge of the experimental surgeries at Temple Street children’s hospital.
The Dutch surgeon who invented the implant technique at the core of the Temple Street surgery scandal warned that the system could not be used with just any
The doctor at the centre of the child spinal crisis at Temple Street wrote a letter to the head of Children's Health Ireland in 2020 which discussed “experimental techniques” in surgeries for young scoliosis patients, the Dáíl has heard.