Papilloedema; Cardiac death in sport; Diagnosing early miscarriage; Warfarin
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What is Papilloedema? The condition has been in the headlines as an optometrist was found guilty of manslaughter after missing abnormalities in the eyes of an eight year old child. Plus, Margaret McCartney debates the accuracy of screening young people for Sudden Cardiac Death in Sport. How to diagnose early miscarriage in women who are bleeding in early pregnancy? And the serendipitous story of how the anti-clotting agent warfarin was first discovered.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, |
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| 0:29.4 | Hello and thank you for downloading this programme, which was first broadcast on the 19th of July 2016. |
| 0:36.2 | Coming up today, miscarriage. |
| 0:38.3 | I meet one of the driving forces behind the move |
| 0:41.3 | to improve the accuracy of ultrasound scans in early pregnancy. |
| 0:45.6 | They may be accurate now, but that wasn't always the case. |
| 0:49.8 | Cardiac arrest whilst playing sport, |
| 0:51.9 | we debate the evidence behind screening for hidden heart |
| 0:55.4 | problems that can have catastrophic consequences. This strikes people in their 20s and their teens, |
| 1:02.4 | and these guys lose several decades of life. Once you have found something that can potentially |
| 1:09.0 | kill a young individual, and I use the word |
| 1:11.3 | potentially, as opposed to certainly, then as a physician, I do have an obligation to pose some |
| 1:19.0 | of the risks that may be associated with ongoing athletic activity. |
| 1:24.1 | And we continue our happy accident series looking at the impact of serendipity on modern medicine. |
| 1:30.4 | This week it's the story of warfarin. |
| 1:33.4 | But first, papill adema, a condition most of you had probably never heard of until last week |
| 1:39.3 | when an optometrist hit the headlines after being found guilty of manslaughter |
| 1:43.9 | because she missed |
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