Fetoscopy and fetal blood sampling.

Date:
1979
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Description

Charles Rodek from King's College Hospital discusses fetoscopy and fetal blood sampling. The following summary accompanies the cassette: "Some of the uses of blood sampling and fetal examination by fetoscopy are mentioned. The Needlescope is demonstrated and the technique for its use is described. Real-time scanning immediately before the insertion of the fetoscope is an essential part of the procedure. It ensures selection of the optimal entry-point so that damage to fetus and placenta is avoided, and access is gained to the fetal region to be examined or to the cord insertion for blood sampling. A particle-size analyzer provides immediate information on the quality of blood specimens. A film sequence shows a fetus being examined and blood being sampled. With this technique, pure fetal blood can be obtained in over 95% of cases when the sampling is performed between 18 and 22 weeks gestation. The results of diagnostic cases are shown and the risks discussed."

Publication/Creation

London : University of London Audio-Visual Centre, 1979.

Physical description

1 videocassette (VHS) (28.43 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 videocassette (Umatic) (28.43 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 videocassette (1-inch) (28.43 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 videocassette (Digibeta) (28.43 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 DVD (28.43 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.

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University of London

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.

Creator/production credits

Discussed by Mr Geoffrey Chamberlain and Mr Charles Rodeck, King's College Hospital. Produced by Jennie Smith. Made by University of London Audio-Visual Centre. Made for British Postgraduate Medical Federaton in association with the Blair Bell Research Society.

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