{"id":50209,"date":"2025-09-29T07:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/50209\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T07:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:55:06","slug":"maternity-dialysis-and-cancer-care-formed-bulk-of-kildares-65000-procedures-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/50209\/","title":{"rendered":"Maternity, Dialysis And Cancer Care Formed Bulk Of Kildare\u2019s 65,000 Procedures Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/652e424b488f8.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Among male inpatients, the main issues were digestive, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal surgery.\n        <\/p>\n<p>More than 64,000 inpatient and day-case procedures were carried out in Kildare last year.<\/p>\n<p>Women accounted for most of the 19,262 inpatient cases, with maternity care the biggest driver.<\/p>\n<p>Men made up a slight majority of the 45,757 day-case attendances, led by dialysis and radiotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>The inpatient workload totalled 19,262 cases, with women accounting for the majority &#8211; just over 11,000 compared with 8,100 men.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maternity services dominated, with 2,944 obstetric procedures, including 1,187 caesarean sections, 380 assisted deliveries, and 29 breech births.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among male inpatients, the main issues were digestive, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Day-case activity reached 45,757, with men slightly ahead at 23,358 compared to 22,399 women.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The biggest drivers were dialysis (6,326 sessions, mostly male), radiotherapy (5,520 treatments, mainly male), and endoscopy (2,658 colonoscopies split evenly between sexes).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among male inpatients, the main issues were digestive, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal surgery. More than 64,000 inpatient and day-case&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,28328,3770],"class_list":["post-50209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kfm","tag-kildare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}