Running, cycling and knee health, Adrenaline and cardiac arrest, Artificial eyes
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Does running damage your knees? And is cycling any better? Runner, cyclist, GP and Inside Health regular, Dr Margaret McCartney goes to the new Motion Analysis Lab at Glasgow's Jubilee Hospital and asks orthopaedic surgeon and competitive cyclist Jason Roberts about the latest evidence.
Around 30,000 people a year suffer cardiac arrest - their heart suddenly stops pumping blood around their body - and fewer than one in ten survive. Paramedics and ambulance crews will give CPR and use a defibrillator to try to restart the heart, and for the past 50 plus years, most patients will be given a shot of adrenaline too. But a landmark new study funded by the government and run by Warwick Medical School reveals that giving adrenaline barely increases survival and almost doubles the risk of severe brain damage. Dr Margaret McCartney discusses likely changes to policy with Dr Mark Porter.
It's said that eyes are the windows to the soul - and certainly looking into other peoples' is the key part of human interaction. But what if one of yours isn't real? Sixty thousand people in the UK have an artificial eye and Europe's largest maxillo-facial laboratory at Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead offers a bespoke service where specialists make individual eyes from live sittings. Susan lost one eye as a child and she tells Mark that her latest prosthesis is her favourite. Why? Because it's almost half the weight of eyes she's had fitted before. Dr Emma Worrall, principal prosthetist, has invented a lighter sphere. In a lightbulb moment sitting in a café stirring a sugar cube into her coffee and watching it melt, Emma tells Mark that she realised she could build the plastic sphere around sugar, drill a tiny hole, then melt the sugar out of the middle! Twenty patients at the hospital are now benefiting from lighter eyes (which means less surgery). And there's another plus. The new eyes float in the swimming pool and the sea!
Producer: Fiona Hill.
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| 0:42.6 | where the patient is brought back by an injection directly into the heart. Think John Travolta |
| 0:47.8 | and Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction if medical dramas aren't your thing. But back in the real world, |
| 0:54.0 | new research has highlighted |
| 0:55.1 | a worrying link with brain damage. Margaret McCartney takes a closer look. And artificial eyes. |
| 1:01.5 | I visit Europe's biggest maxillow facial prosthetics lab to see how they're made and to meet |
| 1:07.0 | the woman behind a new type of prosthesis that's so light it floats and you'll be surprised |
| 1:12.6 | how much that matters. I had a man who fell out in the shower but he found it easy. I've had them |
| 1:17.5 | falling out in swimming pools. I've had a sailor. I don't know what he was doing but apparently |
| 1:22.1 | it was bobbing next to him when he capsized. I mean that is lucky. Can you imagine that? |
| 1:26.8 | Everything you wanted to know about artificial eyes |
| 1:29.3 | coming up later. But first, Margaret McCartney's been to a high-tech lab to learn more about the |
| 1:35.2 | impact of sports like running and cycling on your joints, particularly knees. And Margaret, |
| 1:40.8 | you're both a runner and a cyclist. I am, I am. I've got the running bug by me about eight or nine years ago now. |
| 1:46.8 | But in the last couple of years, I've become progressively more advanced with the type of bike I have. |
| 1:51.2 | I've graduated from a Dutch bike onto more of a road bike now. |
| 1:54.5 | And how far do you run and how far would you cycle in a typical week? |
| 1:58.1 | Probably about 25K in a week of running and maybe between 20 and 100k on my bike. |
| 2:05.6 | Well, that's the proper level. I manage about 10K running. I didn't say I was fast. I run very fast. |
| 2:12.3 | Yeah, well, I try to don't run our cycle very fast, unfortunately. And have you had any problems with |
| 2:16.9 | joint injuries? Well, just little n have you had any problems with joint injuries? |
| 2:17.8 | Well, just little niggles, I suppose, with my hips and my knees, |
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