BAUS Snapshot Audits
Projects starting in 2020
BAUS undertook two snapshot audits in 2020.
First, an audit of surgery for bladder outflow obstruction (BOO) with individual unit feedback sent out in early November 2020. National data from...
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The East of England region (formerly East Anglia) is typically flat fenland with much of it lying below sea level. The distance between training centres, and the overloaded road network in the region, means that you may be required to spend time...
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The London South region is bounded by the River Thames and the M25 motorway and forms part of the London School of Surgery.
The full kaleidoscope of core and subspecialist urology is available within the region, with three teaching...
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The North East Deanery lies in an area of outstanding natural beauty. The region includes Northumberland National Park, Teesdale, Weardale, as well as one of most beautiful, and under-visited, coastlines in the United Kingdom.
This is a...
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Trainees' Newsletters
BAUS trainees receive regular updates from the Officers of BSoT, to keep them abreast of what is happening in their area of urology. In addition, from time to time, the Section of Trainees publishes information in...
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Clinical leads for GIRFT urology
The clinical leads for the GIRFT urology workstream have recently been working on the programme of re-visiting trusts.
Mr Kieran O’Flynn, Consultant Urological Surgeon at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust...
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Executive Committee
Aims & Objectives
The Section of Academic Urology was formed in June 2007. Its objectives are:
to nurture future academic urologists,
to promote patient-based research among NHS colleagues, and
to facilitate...
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Webinars for FY / CT Doctors
Introduction by Anna O'Riordan, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne & former Educational Lead for FY/CT Doctors:
“This series of webinars is intended to support knowledge and...
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From Kevin Byrnes & Arjun Nathan
Co-Chairs of BURST
"... cutting edge research & debunking fake news ..."
We are delighted to welcome you to #BURSTatBAUS this year. We have something for everyone on every day of the...
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This procedure was known as the Lesser Operation or operation by the Apparatus Minor as only two instruments were essential, a knife and a hook. In England it became known as "Cutting on the Gripe". The median perineal approach is described...
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Charles Joseph Phillips (1811 - 1870) was born in Liège in Belgium on 20 April 1811. He studied medicine in Liège but later settled in Paris where he soon became a well known urologist.
He improved the filiform urethral bougie by adding a screw...
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The first concept of using coherent fibre-optical bundles to transmit images, ie. the ‘Fibrescope’ was devised by Harold H Hopkins and reported in 1954 1. Following this, fibreoptic endoscopes were in routine use in gastroenterology by the late...
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The foundations of Imperial Chinese medicine were laid in the Ancient Chinese era. Imperial Chinese medicine consolidated the concept of the "life force", Qi, with imbalances of the opposing forces, yin and yang, being responsible for disease....
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Amussat
Jean Zuléma Amussat (1796 - 1856) was born in Saint-Maixent, Département des Deux-Sèvres, France. He was an army surgeon during Napoleon’s final campaigns.
He was one of the early inventors of lithotripsy, and an...
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Francis Richard Cruise was born in Mountjoy Square Dublin in 1834, the son of a solicitor. He studied medicine at Trinity College and The Richmond Hospital, under Sir Dominic Corrigan and Robert McDonnell (who performed the first blood transfusion...
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Peter Freyer (1851-1921) was born on 2 July 1851 in Co Galway, Ireland. Freyer went to the Erasmus Smith School in Galway, winning a scholarship to Queen's College, Galway.
In 1872 he obtained a first class honours degree, winning the gold...
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Sir Peter Freyer was born and educated in Galway, Ireland.
He started his medical career with the army in India where caused a furore by accepting payment from the Nawab of Rampur for his urological services.
He established himself in Harley...
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Transvesical Prostatectomy
In 1827, whilst removing a bladder stone by the supra pubic route, Jean Amussat (1796 - 1856) of France, noticed a round tumour projecting from the bladder neck and snipped it off with scissors. This was almost...
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Terence Millin (1903 - 1980) was born in County Down, Ireland in 1903. He studied at St. Andrew's and Trinity College in Dublin and spent some time at the Middlesex Hospital and at Guy's Hospital in London.
Millin was senior house surgeon at...
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