Clinical nutrition : Metabolic and nutritional aspects of severe injury.

Date:
1976
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Description

Here, Dr. Roger Smith of the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford describes some of the metabolic effects of severe injury in man and attempts to assess the nutritional and therapeutic implications of recent work. A short summary accompanying the cassette reads: "Injury is a complex insult which produces widespread effects on body composition, energy exchange and hormonal balance. Studies on protein and ketone body metabolism suggest that these are closely linked. The loss of muscle protein after injury may be due to failure of synthesis as well as increased breakdown. Measurement of circulating levels of branched-chain amino acids and of urinary 3-methylhistidine (as an index of muscle catabolism) provide support for these ideas. Out-standing problems include the effect of immobility on the skeleton and muscle, and the ways in which muscle protein synthesis may be stimulated.

Publication/Creation

London : University of London Audio-Visual Centre, 1976.

Physical description

1 videocassette (VHS) (22 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 videocassette (Umatic) (22 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 DVD (22 min.) : sound, black and white.
1 videocassette (Digibeta) (22 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 videocassette (1-inch) (22 min.) : sound, black and white.

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Presented by Dr Roger Smith, Radcliffe Infirmary and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford. Produced by Trevor A. Scott. Made by University of London Audio-Visual Centre for British Postgraduate Medical Federation.

Notes

This video is one of around 310 titles, originally broadcast on Channel 7 of the ILEA closed-circuit television network, given to Wellcome Trust from the University of London Audio-Visual Centre shortly after it closed in the late 1980s. Although some of these programmes might now seem rather out-dated, they probably represent the largest and most diversified body of medical video produced in any British university at this time, and give a comprehensive and fascinating view of the state of medical and surgical research and practice in the 1970s and 1980s, thus constituting a contemporary medical-historical archive of great interest. The lectures mostly take place in a small and intimate studio setting and are often face-to-face. The lecturers use a wide variety of resources to illustrate their points, including film clips, slides, graphs, animated diagrams, charts and tables as well as 3-dimensional models and display boards with movable pieces. Some of the lecturers are telegenic while some are clearly less comfortable about being recorded; all are experts in their field and show great enthusiasm to share both the latest research and the historical context of their specialist areas.

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