TV: New series goes behind the scenes at Cork University Hospital
That also means that, on any given day at the Wilton building, hearts are broken and hearts are mended, lives are lost and lives are saved, and families find enormous strength in each other and from the 4,000 workforce.
We get an insight into the work of CUH staff, and the experiences of people cared for there, in the documentary series , which starts on RTÉ1 at 9.35pm on Wednesday. The six-part series follows staff shifts and patient journeys across the hospital.
Each story was captured in one single day. Together, these stories paint a bigger picture of the work done in Cork’s largest hospital on a daily basis.
In the first episode, we meet a cyclist who has been in a collision with a car on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork
The air ambulance has been scrambled. The emergency phone in Resus sounds, and 46-year-old Barry arrives to the Emergency Department. Doctor Oge Iwegbulem orders a pan scan to assess serious trauma to Barry’s head, spine, chest, abdomen and pelvis.
Elsewhere in the hospital, expectant parents Caroline and Rory have come in for the 30-week scan.
Caroline has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, and Consultant Oncologist Doctor Richard Bambury needs to decide the safest and best treatment for both Caroline and her baby.
In the Emergency Department, 22-year-old Kaytlin is waiting to be seen after a tackle in a football match left her with a nasty gash. Advanced Nurse Practitioner Elaine Houlihan steps in to stitch up the wound.
Meanwhile, Joe is awaiting surgery for a brain aneurysm that is close to rupture point.
The procedure will be carried out by Neuro Interventional Radiologist Gerry Wyse.
However, just as Joe is about to be brought to the theatre, an emergency call is put through. A patient is having a stroke.
Gerry rushes to perform an emergency thrombectomy, a procedure to remove a potentially fatal brain clot. He then returns to Joe’s complex procedure as the patient’s family waits anxiously for updates.
App?
