Resuscitation of the newborn.

UK : University of London, 1972.

1 encoded moving image (19 min.) : sound, black and white.

00:19:04

University of London

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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales

In English

Presented by Dr. David Harvey from the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, London. Produced by Peter Bowen.

This video is one of around 310 titles, originally broadcast on Channel 7 of the ILEA closed-circuit television network, given to Wellcome Trust from the University of London Audio-Visual Centre shortly after it closed in the late 1980s. Although some of these programmes might now seem rather out-dated, they probably represent the largest and most diversified body of medical video produced in any British university at this time, and give a comprehensive and fascinating view of the state of medical and surgical research and practice in the 1970s and 1980s, thus constituting a contemporary medical-historical archive of great interest. The lectures mostly take place in a small and intimate studio setting and are often face-to-face. The lecturers use a wide variety of resources to illustrate their points, including film clips, slides, graphs, animated diagrams, charts and tables as well as 3-dimensional models and display boards with movable pieces. Some of the lecturers are telegenic while some are clearly less comfortable about being recorded; all are experts in their field and show great enthusiasm to share both the latest research and the historical context of their specialist areas.

Segment 1 Dr Harvey introduces the subject and gives a history of the treatment of severely asphyxiated newborns. An image of Louise Bourgeois, midwife to Marie de Medici (17th century) is shown, who supposedly revived the newborn Louise XIII by spitting wine into his mouth. He describes other strange methods of resuscitating newborns such as taking the beak of a live hen and putting it in the baby's rectum. An image of a 19th century resuscitation is shown, which involved dangling the baby between the physician's legs. Another showing the baby being thrown into a 'jackknife' position is shown. Harvey shows a chart describing the results of an experiment on an asphyxiated newborn rabbit and talks through the stages of the experiment. Time start: 00:00:00:00 Time end: 00:06:55:10 Length: 00:06:55:10

Segment 2 Harvey explains that this experiment proves that most babies are only mildly asphyxiated, so would get better anyway. He shows the apparatus needed to actively resusciate a baby with more severe asphyxiation, including tools such as a mucus extractor and swaddler. He also shows the equipment needed for intubation and describes how to perform an intubtation. Time start: 00:06:55:10 Time end: 00:12:04:00 Length: 00:05:08:15

Segment 3 Harvey continues to describe how to perform an intubation. He also shows the drugs used in resuscitation and describes their dosages. He then describes cardiac massage for babies born without a heart beat or if heart rate is very slow. Harvey demonstrates cardiac massage and describes the correct procedure. The film ends with Harvey emphasising that resuscitation can be very simple and can also be performed by doing mouth-to-mouth ventilation. Time start: 00:12:04:00 Time end: 00:19:04:11 Length: 00:07:00:11