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 4
Patrick has fallen from a roof. Orthopaedic Surgeon Declan Reidy prepares for urgent spinal surgery.
In the Cystic Fibrosis unit, a Multi-Disciplinary Team led by Professor Barry Plant is discussing a new drug that might save a patient’s life. The patient, Kim, is waiting to be assessed and briefed on the potential treatment. The drug has just finished the clinical trial stage but is not yet approved.
Mary has arrived into the Emergency Department with suspected sepsis, an infection that might take over her body’s whole immune system. The severe end of that is septic shock which can be fatal. The team work to find the source of the infection. The faster that can be done, the greater the chance of survival.
A four year old boy’s mother finds him slumped at the bottom of his bed, struggling to breathe. She immediately calls an ambulance and the child is rushed to the CUH Paediatric Emergency Department for treatment.
An American tourist collapses and nearly dies. His aortic valve is severely constricted. 11 days later Cardiothoracic Surgeon Tara Ní Dhonnchú is preparing for open heart surgery to repair his heart.
This is Cork University Hospital – on Any Given Day.
Any Given Day: Cork University Hospital is produced by Indiepics and Scratch Films for RTÉ.
