Episode of Series “Horizon”.
Surgeons today perform operations which would have seemed miraculous only a few years ago; but even now, a century after Joseph Lister published the first accounts of his revolutionary technique of antiseptic surgery, infection after operations is a menace, probably costing the Health Service six million pounds a year. Investigates both the techniques used to prevent infection during an actual operation and research into the causes of infection which still trouble British hospitals. Reporter: Christopher Chataway.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
004986
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Medicine - Study and teaching
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Hospital care
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Hospitals - Safety measures
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Hygiene
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Infection
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical care
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medicine - Study and teaching
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Operations - Surgical
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Physicians
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Surgery
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)