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| | | Dr Graham Easton gives listeners the low-down on what the medical profession does and doesn't know. Each week an expert in the studio tacklesÌýa particular topic and there are reports from around the UK on the health of the nation - and the NHS.
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"What I love about Case Notes is that it's about real medicine - real patients and health professionals telling it how it is. These days staying healthy is as much about knowing how to get the most out of the health service as about knowing all the ins and outs of disease."
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Premature Babies
InÌýCase NotesÌýthis week, presenter Graham Easton explores the medicine of prematurity. Advances in medical technology mean that many premature babies who would have died twenty years ago can now have a normal life – but according to a recent study some babies are still dying needlessly in the UK because of inadequate hospital care.
Graham explores the medical challenges of looking after babies born too early, and takes a tour of some of the technology now used to keep them alive. He hears from a consultant in neonatology about the latest techniques for looking after immature lungs and protecting the brain. Babies born at 27 weeks gestation (more than three months early) can now reasonably expect to survive undamaged – so what factors still pose problems in terms ofÌýlooking after babies born even earlier? Why (according to the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy) are poor record-keeping, lack of expertise in resuscitation and lack of life-saving lung treatments still causing problems for UK premature babies?
Graham also talks to parents of premature babies about their experiences of having a baby born early, and how they coped with the emotional and medical ups and downs of having a child in special care. There are also reports on how science is trying to prevent early deliveries in the first place, and what we know about the long term effects of being born too early.
Next week's topic is Blood Clotting.
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