E-cigs, Prehabilitation before surgery, Hospital safety
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Why vaping is dividing public health experts causing a polarised split; prehabilitation before cancer surgery and the benefits of preparing for an operation; plus can hospital safety be compared to lessons learnt from the aviation industry?
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| 0:34.7 | Hello, coming up today, Hospital Safety, Margaret McCartney has an issue with recent comparisons |
| 0:40.6 | between the NHS and the aviation industry and surgery. We're all familiar with the idea |
| 0:46.9 | of rehabilitation to help people get back on their feet quicker. But why wait until after the |
| 0:53.1 | operation? Pre-habitation is the latest development |
| 0:56.5 | and it's having a big impact on recovery, even in patients with cancers. It's obviously my body. |
| 1:02.8 | Cancer has happened to me and if I can do something to help myself to get over it, I'm prepared |
| 1:09.4 | to do whatever it takes really to still be here. |
| 1:12.0 | I find it quite fascinating that something as simple as this, which is getting patients |
| 1:17.4 | ready for surgery, has actually improved post-operative outcomes. |
| 1:22.1 | And I often think back and think it's not anything like laparoscopic surgery or robotic |
| 1:25.9 | surgery that's done that, but it's just getting patients ready from a physical and mental point of view. |
| 1:31.2 | More from the team behind that surgical prehab program later. |
| 1:35.4 | But first, e-sigs and vaping. |
| 1:38.1 | While the number of smokers in the UK has fallen by nearly a fifth over the last five years, |
| 1:43.4 | the number who vape is at an all-time high, |
| 1:46.5 | and it's a trend that's not been lost on the big cigarette manufacturers. British American tobacco, |
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