Handling and care of the patient (part two). No. 11.

Date:
[1944]
  • Film

About this work

Description

Continued from 4212D. Intertitle Return to bed 1. Leaving the theatre. A patient is shown vomiting saliva (reflex vomiting). Warm blankets are shown being placed on the patient and his airways are checked. He is stretchered onto a trolley. A porter and nurse return the patient to the ward. A female patient with shallow breathing is shown; the porter panics and goes to fetch help; the anaesthetist arrives with oxygen, although the narrator notes that correctly positioning the patient s jaw would have been helpful. 2. In the ward. The patient s bed is ready, the hospital staff move the patient onto the hospital bed, moving the hot water bottles as necessary. Medical instruments are at the ready at the head of the bed. The nurse and sister observe the patient. Depending on the nature of the operation, the patient may arrive sideways. The patient is shown being positioned in the bed. How to handle patients arriving with a mouth tube and a restless patient having been anaesthetised with barbiturates is shown. CIC The End.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [1944]

Physical description

1 film reel (08:40 mins): sd., b&w.; 16mm.

Notes

Part two of two.
Part of the film collection comprising of 55 items donated by Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford, to the Wellcome Trust in 2008. In 1937, Lord Nuffield established a clinical chair of anaesthesia in Oxford amidst some controversy that anaesthesia was even an academic discipline. The collection is a mixture of clinical and educational films made or held by the department to supplement their teaching dating from the late 1930s onwards.
Duplicate film item; see also ICI011.

Creator/production credits

Direction by Rosanne Hunter, Photography by A.E. Jeakins, Editing by Gwen Baillie. Produced by Realist Film Unit. Made with the co-operation of the Department of Anaesthetics, Westminister Hospital, London.

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ICI.

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    4213F
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