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Title Great Ormond Street. [Series 2, Episode 5], Decisions for life / producer, Nicola Comber ; produced & directed by Rob Gill ; a Films of Record production
Published London, England : BBC Worldwide, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (59 minutes)
Summary With a unique level of access, Great Ormond Street returns to the wards of London's foremost children's hospital. This revelatory series observes the life and death decision- making among the various highly-skilled teams working on the wards to see the many challenges they face at the cutting edge of children's medicine. By following challenging individual cases, the series reveals the complexity and many difficult decisions involved in research, clinical medicine and behind the scenes management of perhaps the best children's hospital in the world The hospital's Cardiothoracic Department treats new born babies with complex heart problems. Many are diagnosed before they are even born and improvements in surgical techniques mean that more of these babies are surviving. Short term survival rates are on the rise, however a long life expectancy is the real measure of success. Surgeons and doctors, together with parents, must decide whether or not to embark on difficult surgery knowing that in some cases, the outcomes remain uncertain
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed January 23, 2019)
Performer Narrator: Steven Mackintosh
Notes In English
Subject Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (London, England)
Pediatric cardiology -- England -- London -- Case studies
Infants -- Surgery -- England -- London -- Case studies
Infants -- Hospital care -- England -- London -- Case studies
Infants -- Surgery.
Pediatric cardiology.
England -- London.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Documentary television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Case studies.
Documentaires télévisés.
Études de cas.
Form Streaming video
Author Gill, Rob, director, producer
Comber, Nicola, producer
Mackintosh, Steven, narrator
BBC Worldwide Learning, film distributor.
Films of Record Ltd., production company.