Moving the acute spinal injured patient.

Date:
1983
  • Videos

About this work

Description

Within the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, several different types of bed, together with a combination of pillows and other aids, are used to nurse patients at all stages of paraplegia and tetraplegia. While patients with spinal cord injuries are, in the main, treated in specialist units, there are occasions when this is not possible and where initial care and management must be carried out in other hospitals. This programme sets out in simple steps the nursing regime used at Stoke Mandeville. It is suitable for all grades of nurses.

Publication/Creation

UK : University of London, 1983.

Physical description

1 videocassette (Umatic) (28 min.) : sound, color
1 videocassette (VHS) (28 min.) : sound, color

Contributors

Creator/production credits

Presented by Dr Hans Frankel, Consultant in Spinal Injuries.

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.

Copyright note

University of London

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