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 2
In episode two, a 4-year-old girl is being rushed to hospital by ambulance. She is suffering prolonged seizures. Her condition continues to deteriorate enroute to hospital. Her breathing is compromised. Emergency Consultant Rory O’Brien and the team in the Emergency Department are standing by …
Howard has Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Treated by a multi-disciplinary team, he is in CUH today to check progression of his condition. MND is a severe degenerative disorder of the nervous system.
Back in the Emergency Department a cyclist has his kneecap put back in place. The treating Doctor, Jason Van Der Velde, takes an emergency call to attend an accident. 49-year-old James has been kicked in the chest by a horse and is in severe distress. Jason rushes to the scene …
64-year-old Tim has advanced lung cancer. Chemotherapy and immunotherapy have reduced the tumour sufficiently to allow an operation to take place. Today Surgeon Kishore Doddakula will try to surgically remove all of the cancer in a bid to cure Tim of lung cancer and save his life.
This is Cork University Hospital – on Any Given Day.
Any Given Day is produced by Indiepics and Scratch Films for RTÉ.
