Blood pressure pills and cancer, Aortic aneurysm repair, Sinks and hospital infection
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Clarity behind recent headlines linking cancer to pills for high blood pressure; Margaret McCartney unpicks the numbers. And the aorta is the largest artery in the body so should it burst due to an abdominal aortic aneurysm, results can be catastrophic. Now Surgeons are concerned that restricting the use of the latest keyhole techniques to repair aneurysms would be a backward step and harm patients. Plus how sinks could be causing hospital infections.
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| 0:34.5 | BBC Sounds. Music, radio podcasts. Hello. Coming up in the next half hour, problems with the pipes, how plumbing could be causing infections in hospital. |
| 0:46.0 | Suffice to say, you'll never look at a sink in quite the same way again. |
| 0:51.1 | Basically, all the sewage systems are connecting every single sink. |
| 0:56.1 | So this piping, every single room in a certain ward, but sometimes even in an entire department, |
| 1:03.5 | is interconnected. |
| 1:05.2 | So this is the ideal route, basically, through which a multi-drug resistant bacteria can move from one room to another |
| 1:14.6 | and cause a major outbreak. |
| 1:17.0 | Yuck! |
| 1:17.7 | And new guidance from Nice on treating aortic aneurysms. |
| 1:21.8 | Surgeons are concerned that restricting the use of the latest keyhole techniques |
| 1:26.1 | would be a backward step that will harm patients. |
| 1:29.5 | I think if we look at the international models and international guidelines, |
| 1:32.7 | we're going to be very isolated. |
| 1:34.8 | So there is general shock amongst aortic surgeons internationally |
| 1:38.5 | at the fact we may be going back 20 years in our practice. |
| 1:42.9 | But first, new research linking cancer to a widely |
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