On any given day 4000 staff come to work in one of Ireland’s busiest hospitals … Cork University Hospital.
On any given day staff here care for some 800 inpatients, 800 outpatients and over 240 emergencies.
On any given day in CUH, hearts are broken and hearts are mended, lives are lost and lives are saved, and families find enormous strength in each other.
This series follows staff shifts and patient journeys across the hospital. Each story was captured in one single day. Together they tell a bigger story – of CUH on Any Given Day.
Episode 1
In the first of the six-part series, we meet a cyclist who has been in a collision with a car on the Beara Peninsula. The air ambulance has been scrambled. The emergency phone in Resus sounds. 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 are in hospital for Caroline’s 30-week scan. Caroline has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. 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 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. Just as Joe is about to be brought to theatre an emergency call is made. 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 Joe’s family waits anxiously for updates.
Any Given Day Cork University Hospital is produced by Indiepics and Scratch Films for RTÉ.
