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Hospital beds in the NHS have never been under more pressure... | 0:00:04 | 0:00:08 | |
It's just unrelenting at the moment. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
..with more patients to care for than ever before, | 0:00:11 | 0:00:13 | |
and only 150,000 beds to go round. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:17 | |
It is a fast-paced job. It's a non-stopping conveyor belt. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:24 | |
In this series, | 0:00:24 | 0:00:25 | |
we use special cameras on beds in four very different hospitals... | 0:00:25 | 0:00:29 | |
Comfy bed. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
..to see the world through the beds' eyes. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
Left at the lights. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:42 | |
SHE SOBS ..as they share the most challenging... | 0:00:42 | 0:00:46 | |
-SHE SIGHS -Oh, it's coming again. | 0:00:46 | 0:00:47 | |
Don't get upset. We'll look after you, OK? | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
Are you OK, pet? | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
..most intimate... | 0:00:57 | 0:00:58 | |
That's good. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
..and most rewarding moments of our lives. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
So, so happy. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:05 | |
Coming up... | 0:01:11 | 0:01:12 | |
In Newcastle, on Resus bed five, | 0:01:12 | 0:01:15 | |
65-year-old David is fighting for his life. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
We're treating him as definitely being septic. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
It's massively serious. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:21 | |
In Birmingham, on day surgery bed 40, | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
44-year-old Lisa needs an operation for her serious heart problem. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:33 | |
I exercise regularly. I eat well. I don't smoke. Why me? | 0:01:33 | 0:01:37 | |
And in Romford, on maternity bed six, | 0:01:39 | 0:01:41 | |
49-year-old Shola is getting ready to give birth to triplets. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:46 | |
Today will be the last day of being two. From tomorrow, we are now five. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:51 | |
Is that not amazing? | 0:01:51 | 0:01:53 | |
Your bed's like an extra member of staff, almost. | 0:01:56 | 0:02:00 | |
This is The Secret Life Of The Hospital Bed. | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital has 9,000 staff, | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
working around the clock to look after anyone who falls ill. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
Can I have one of your beds, David? | 0:02:22 | 0:02:24 | |
This is the hospital's day surgery unit. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
It treats around 500 patients every week. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
Just closing some of his stitches. | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
The day surgery beds are intensive shift workers, | 0:02:35 | 0:02:38 | |
on duty 12 hours a day. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:40 | |
Today, bed 40 will be with Lisa, | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
who's here for a life-saving procedure. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:48 | |
ALL TALK | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
All right, then. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
I had to get the dash in there | 0:02:55 | 0:02:56 | |
-cos I pronounced it wrong, so I do apologise. -Oh, don't worry. | 0:02:56 | 0:02:58 | |
-You get that a lot, don't you? -Yes, yes. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:00 | |
-Own-ions. Onions. -LAUGHTER | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
-But I answer to O'Nions. -I had to ask. I was like... | 0:03:02 | 0:03:04 | |
we weren't too sure. | 0:03:04 | 0:03:05 | |
Lisa has a serious heart defect and needs a pacemaker to keep her alive. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:10 | |
She's just 44 years old. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
Sometimes, I do get a little bit angry with myself, | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
I suppose, really. Cos I think, | 0:03:17 | 0:03:18 | |
well, I don't drink, I don't smoke, | 0:03:18 | 0:03:20 | |
I exercise regularly, I eat well - healthily. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:26 | |
Why me? But, at the end of the day, you sort of have to deal with it. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
It's there. It's not going to go away. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:32 | |
And, actually, it's keeping me alive now, | 0:03:32 | 0:03:34 | |
so just get on with it. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:37 | |
Today, Lisa is having the battery changed on her current pacemaker. | 0:03:39 | 0:03:44 | |
Do you have a list of medication? | 0:03:44 | 0:03:45 | |
I don't have any. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:46 | |
-No meds? -I'm a good girl. -Ooh! | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
Nurse MacDonald is dealing with Lisa's pre-op care. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:53 | |
-Just a bit about your past medical history. -OK. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:55 | |
So, the reason the pacemaker was put in? | 0:03:55 | 0:03:58 | |
Sick sinus syndrome. | 0:03:58 | 0:03:59 | |
Is that from a child, or...? | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
Well, they found it when I was 23. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:03 | |
-Oh, OK. Just irregular heartbeat? -Just irregular heartbeat. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:06 | |
I was just going for a routine check-up for some medication | 0:04:06 | 0:04:10 | |
and my GP found that I've got an irregular heartbeat. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
-Oh, OK. -And it picked up from there. | 0:04:13 | 0:04:15 | |
-Rhythm. -Mm. | 0:04:15 | 0:04:16 | |
Only 2% of pacemakers are fitted in people under the age of 45. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:23 | |
If Lisa's condition hadn't been picked up by her GP, | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
she wouldn't be alive today. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
THEY TALK | 0:04:29 | 0:04:30 | |
And your next of kin? | 0:04:30 | 0:04:32 | |
Stuart O'Nions. That's my husband. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:34 | |
-Is he coming with you? -He's going to come up | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
-once I've had the procedure done. -Yeah, yeah. That's fine. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:40 | |
Cos I said, "Well, you'll probably be... | 0:04:40 | 0:04:42 | |
-"so to speak, in the way". -NURSE LAUGHS | 0:04:42 | 0:04:44 | |
I didn't know that my hubby could be here, you see. | 0:04:44 | 0:04:46 | |
-Yeah, yeah. -That's why I said... | 0:04:46 | 0:04:47 | |
-Has he got a job where he can just nip out, then? -Yeah, yeah. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
It might keep you... | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
When am I scheduled to go down? | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
I've just got to double-check the list. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:56 | |
I don't know how I'm going to let him know. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:58 | |
Do I just let him know afterwards? | 0:04:58 | 0:04:59 | |
Do you want to text him now, the number? | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
-Oh, do you mind? -Yeah, of course. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:02 | |
Lisa married her husband, Stuart, 20 years ago. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
She wanted him to be here. | 0:05:06 | 0:05:08 | |
But, for now, she's facing the operation on her own. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:11 | |
Can your wedding band come off, or do you want it taped? | 0:05:11 | 0:05:14 | |
-I'll have it taped, if that's OK. -Yeah. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:16 | |
And the one on my toe, as well, please, if that's OK. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:19 | |
-Is that a wedding band on your toe, too? -Yeah. -Is it?! | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
Is it like a special ceremony you had? | 0:05:22 | 0:05:24 | |
-LAUGHTER -Is it not? | 0:05:24 | 0:05:25 | |
We went into the wedding ring centre in Florida | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
and he said, "I've never sized up somebody's toe before." | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:05:31 | 0:05:32 | |
I've never seen a wedding band on a toe, I'm not going to lie. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
-LAUGHTER -It's very unusual. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:37 | |
I've just never seen a wedding band on a toe. Honestly! | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
That's it. It doesn't come off. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:45 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:05:45 | 0:05:46 | |
Professor Leyva, an expert in cardiac devices, | 0:05:47 | 0:05:51 | |
will be carrying out the operation. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:53 | |
We know that, when you are not pacing, you just stop. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
-Isn't it? -That's right, yeah. | 0:05:56 | 0:05:57 | |
So, to be absolutely sure, we'll just put in a temporary wire. | 0:05:57 | 0:06:01 | |
And that just covers us | 0:06:01 | 0:06:04 | |
-during the process of changing the box. -I know, when you're switching. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:07 | |
OK. I wondered how that was going to work, cos I thought, you know... | 0:06:07 | 0:06:10 | |
-Yeah. No, that's the safest way to do it. -That explains it. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
Changing a battery on a pacemaker | 0:06:13 | 0:06:15 | |
is an intricate procedure that can take up to an hour. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:19 | |
And do you know whether you'll be using the same scar? | 0:06:19 | 0:06:22 | |
Yeah, I'll just use the same scar. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
I'll have a look. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
If I need to add another one, I might have to. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:29 | |
-OK. -But I'll try not to. -OK. | 0:06:29 | 0:06:31 | |
-OK. -OK? -Thank you. -Very good. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
-See you soon. -Very good. -Thank you. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:34 | |
It's 2pm. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:46 | |
Husband Stuart hasn't arrived yet, | 0:06:46 | 0:06:48 | |
but Lisa's friend Kay, from school, works at the hospital. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:52 | |
-THEY MURMUR -I'll go and get it now. | 0:06:54 | 0:06:58 | |
-You've done this before. -I know. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
I know. Thank you. Thanks for coming to see me. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
Day surgery bed 40 takes her to theatre. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:14 | |
We'll rejoin Lisa as she has her pacemaker renewed to keep her alive. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:21 | |
Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary. | 0:07:31 | 0:07:33 | |
Here, the state-of-the-art A&E Department has more than 40 beds and | 0:07:39 | 0:07:43 | |
six specialist Resus beds which all have life-support machines. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:48 | |
I've just got a lady who I'd like to pop a tube in | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
and get a CT head done on. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:51 | |
She's an alcoholic, hypotensive collapse, GCS about four or five. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:55 | |
A hospital cannot function without beds. Beds are vital. | 0:07:57 | 0:08:01 | |
We are responsible for beds 24/7, 365 days of the year. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:08 | |
There isn't an unlimited number of beds. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:10 | |
We do come up against pressures, especially in winter. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
Our phones don't stop ringing. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:14 | |
Constantly, all day, we just try and keep the flow going as much as possible. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:19 | |
The unit's Resus beds are reserved for those | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
with life-threatening illnesses or injuries. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
It's 11 o'clock in the morning. | 0:08:28 | 0:08:30 | |
Staff are on high alert, | 0:08:30 | 0:08:31 | |
as there's a patient coming in with a very serious condition. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
He's taken straight to Resus. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:40 | |
Hi, Rosie, it's just Gemma. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:42 | |
Do we have another cubicle round there? | 0:08:42 | 0:08:44 | |
Yeah, the patient's only just got here. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:47 | |
Resus bed five is standing by. | 0:08:47 | 0:08:50 | |
65-year-old David has been rushed in with suspected sepsis, | 0:08:53 | 0:08:57 | |
which is the body's reaction to a severe infection. | 0:08:57 | 0:09:00 | |
Sepsis can kill. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
David needs to be injected with antibiotics. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:09 | |
Hello there. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:12 | |
My name's Pixie. I'll be your doctor today. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
What I need to do, my love, is listen to your lungs, | 0:09:15 | 0:09:17 | |
and your heart and all that, OK? | 0:09:17 | 0:09:19 | |
Then we'll take some blood. All right? | 0:09:19 | 0:09:21 | |
You're feeling weak? | 0:09:23 | 0:09:24 | |
Within minutes of being on Resus bed five, Dr Lamping Nam gives David | 0:09:26 | 0:09:31 | |
the potentially life-saving treatment. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
If it is sepsis, she can't afford to wait for test results. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
Nurse Campbell has been working in the A&E department for 12 months. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:43 | |
We haven't definitely got the results back from his urine analysis, | 0:09:43 | 0:09:47 | |
but all the indicators are there to say that he's got urinary sepsis. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:51 | |
-Will I just run the rest of that fluid through? -Yes, please. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:55 | |
As doctors try to stabilise David, | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
health care assistant Mel sheds light on his condition. | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
This gentleman's query sepsis. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:03 | |
Until we have the bloods, doing routine tests, we'll not know | 0:10:03 | 0:10:09 | |
where the sepsis is. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:11 | |
It's massively serious. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:12 | |
All over the news everywhere, at the minute. | 0:10:12 | 0:10:15 | |
It's one of our biggest "watch out for" is the sepsis now. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:19 | |
75 systolic. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:23 | |
David has now been in Resus for half an hour. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
One of the symptoms of his sepsis is getting worse. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
Let me lie you down a bit. Are you feeling dizzy at all? | 0:10:29 | 0:10:32 | |
His blood pressure is low, hence why we've tilted the bed. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:37 | |
Has his blood pressure been so low en route? | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
I'm just going to pop a little scratch on the end of your finger so | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
we can check your blood gases, OK? | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
Just keeping you flat for a little bit, | 0:10:57 | 0:10:59 | |
because your blood pressure's a wee bit low. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:01 | |
Up to four in ten people with severe sepsis will lose their battle to | 0:11:01 | 0:11:04 | |
stay alive. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:06 | |
Later, we'll be back with David to find out if his sepsis has been caught in time. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:10 | |
Across the UK, | 0:11:18 | 0:11:20 | |
an increasing number of women are having children later in life. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
And at Queen's Hospital in Romford, Essex, | 0:11:25 | 0:11:27 | |
more than 50% of first-time mums are over 30. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:32 | |
Do you know where the maternity triage...? | 0:11:32 | 0:11:34 | |
Yes, yes. She needs to come to the checkup, all right? | 0:11:34 | 0:11:38 | |
OK, bye. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:41 | |
The hospital's maternity unit has 25 beds which never rest. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:45 | |
Each one helps deliver around two babies every day. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:51 | |
Hello, little lady. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:53 | |
Maternity bed six is joined by first-time mum-to-be Shola, | 0:11:53 | 0:11:57 | |
who is 49. | 0:11:57 | 0:11:59 | |
She's having triplets. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:00 | |
When people see you're 49, you're pregnant, they say, "Wow!" | 0:12:02 | 0:12:06 | |
Carrying triplets? "Wow! | 0:12:06 | 0:12:08 | |
"How are you coping? How are you doing?" | 0:12:08 | 0:12:11 | |
I just cope, carry very well. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:14 | |
I say, "I'm young, it's just all in the mind, isn't it?" | 0:12:14 | 0:12:17 | |
Do you need some water or something? | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
Shola and her husband Ike have been trying for a baby for 20 years. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:24 | |
This is like a 19-20 years journey for us, | 0:12:24 | 0:12:29 | |
we've been trying to have children. | 0:12:29 | 0:12:32 | |
The couple are devout Christians. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:34 | |
Their church pastor predicted they would have triplets. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:38 | |
"By this time next year, you will come, | 0:12:38 | 0:12:40 | |
"you will carry one child, your husband will carry another one | 0:12:40 | 0:12:43 | |
"and the grandmother will carry another one," | 0:12:43 | 0:12:46 | |
so when he said that, that's when I realised that God had a plan. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:53 | |
Shola's pregnancy is high-risk because she is carrying three babies | 0:12:53 | 0:12:57 | |
and she's almost 50. | 0:12:57 | 0:12:59 | |
Midwife Alexander is on duty today. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
Hello. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:09 | |
Shola has been admitted to the prenatal ward for monitoring. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:12 | |
One of the babies is seriously underweight. | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
Midwife Alexander has to check every six hours | 0:13:19 | 0:13:22 | |
that all the babies' hearts are still beating. | 0:13:22 | 0:13:25 | |
We're doing a cardiotocogram. | 0:13:25 | 0:13:29 | |
Three babies' heartbeats can be hard to find. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:33 | |
Right, so that's the first baby. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:35 | |
It's a good baby! | 0:13:35 | 0:13:38 | |
The most important thing is that they all have | 0:13:38 | 0:13:40 | |
a different heart rate, so we know they are all different individuals. | 0:13:40 | 0:13:44 | |
The baby we are most worried about, he's smaller than the other two. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:50 | |
They will all need support, all three of them, yeah. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:53 | |
I'm trying to look for the second baby. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:56 | |
She's struggling to find the smallest baby's heartbeat. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:12 | |
I haven't got all three of them yet. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
I'm just going to feel her tummy and see if I can feel their backs. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:26 | |
If we're struggling too much, | 0:14:28 | 0:14:29 | |
you will have to have another scan done. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
Let me see if I can feel this one. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:34 | |
There we go. At last! | 0:14:46 | 0:14:48 | |
So, we've got 139, 140, and 136. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:55 | |
The heart rates are normal. | 0:14:55 | 0:14:57 | |
With one baby seriously underweight, | 0:14:58 | 0:15:00 | |
Shola's triplets will be delivered more than a month early | 0:15:00 | 0:15:03 | |
by Caesarean section. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:05 | |
I'm looking forward to going home with my babies, so, yeah, | 0:15:05 | 0:15:07 | |
that's the most important thing now. | 0:15:07 | 0:15:10 | |
Today will be the last day of being two. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
From tomorrow, we are now five. | 0:15:14 | 0:15:16 | |
Is that not amazing? | 0:15:16 | 0:15:17 | |
Maternity bed six will stay with Shola until her babies | 0:15:20 | 0:15:24 | |
are born in less than 24 hours. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:26 | |
Even if it's an elective Caesarean section, | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
there is always risk with surgery, so, yes, | 0:15:29 | 0:15:33 | |
it's always a risk when it comes to Caesarean sections. | 0:15:33 | 0:15:37 | |
We'll return as she get ready to meet them. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:41 | |
Back in Birmingham's day surgery unit, | 0:15:54 | 0:15:55 | |
bed 40 is taking 44-year-old Lisa for her heart operation. | 0:15:55 | 0:15:59 | |
-Sorry. -Yeah. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:02 | |
She's having a new battery fitted to her pacemaker. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:12 | |
Aged just 44, she needs it to keep her alive. | 0:16:12 | 0:16:15 | |
-You OK? -Yeah. -All right. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:19 | |
Well, we're just going to have a look at the device | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
and see what it's doing. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:22 | |
Local anaesthetic will be about three milligrams... | 0:16:22 | 0:16:26 | |
If you're anxious, we'll give you more. | 0:16:26 | 0:16:28 | |
Yeah. | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
-I think that might be better. -Yeah. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:31 | |
-Don't worry. You'll be fine. -OK. -Good, excellent. | 0:16:31 | 0:16:35 | |
Cardiologist Professor Leyva is in charge. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
Lisa will be sedated, but awake throughout. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:42 | |
'This lady has had a pacemaker in for quite some years, since 1998.' | 0:16:42 | 0:16:47 | |
And what we're trying to do | 0:16:47 | 0:16:48 | |
is just to change the battery. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:50 | |
We take out the whole pacemaker and put a new one in. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:53 | |
'It's less common at her age. | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
'It's mainly in the 60, 70, 80-year-olds, | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
'it's much more common to have pacemakers. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:00 | |
'So, we're just checking, at the moment, | 0:17:00 | 0:17:02 | |
'that her own heart is actually beating' | 0:17:02 | 0:17:04 | |
when we take the pacemaker out. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:06 | |
So that, when we change it, the heart just doesn't stop. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:09 | |
The team reduce Lisa's heart rate. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:12 | |
They're on standby, in case her heart stops beating. | 0:17:14 | 0:17:17 | |
How are you feeling there at the moment? | 0:17:23 | 0:17:25 | |
As long as it's not for too long. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:27 | |
What we'll do is we'll leave you like that just for a moment, | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
just to give you a bit longer to adjust, | 0:17:30 | 0:17:31 | |
having been at 60 beats per minute | 0:17:31 | 0:17:33 | |
and now you're down to 40 beats per minute. | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
It takes you a minute or two to adjust to that, OK? | 0:17:36 | 0:17:40 | |
So we'll check with you again before leaving it. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:42 | |
Lisa's husband, Stuart, has arrived at the hospital. | 0:17:46 | 0:17:49 | |
'She doesn't whinge at all. | 0:17:49 | 0:17:52 | |
'She just does take it in her stride. This morning' | 0:17:52 | 0:17:54 | |
she put the girls off to school as normal | 0:17:54 | 0:17:57 | |
and I went to work. I was told to... | 0:17:57 | 0:18:00 | |
be as normal as possible. | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 | |
But, no, your mind's not at work. | 0:18:03 | 0:18:06 | |
Your mind's elsewhere. You're worrying. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:08 | |
And then, as soon as she tells me... | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
..you know, that there's a time for her theatre, | 0:18:11 | 0:18:13 | |
I just jumped ship from work and came straight here. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:17 | |
And then it's just a worry, then, making sure everything's OK | 0:18:17 | 0:18:19 | |
and you're here for her when she comes through from the operation. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:24 | |
All done. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:25 | |
All right? | 0:18:26 | 0:18:28 | |
Good. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:29 | |
'So, we didn't have to put in a temporary wire' | 0:18:29 | 0:18:32 | |
because, actually, her heart was beating quite well. | 0:18:32 | 0:18:35 | |
Although, it stopped for a little bit, | 0:18:35 | 0:18:39 | |
it was a very quick change of the box. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:42 | |
-STUART: -'She's in good hands. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:44 | |
'A very good hospital. Very good surgeons. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:46 | |
'They've transformed her life. She couldn't breathe properly.' | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
Her heartbeat was sort of stopping for four to six seconds sometimes. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:52 | |
She needs this pacemaker. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:53 | |
Lisa is transferred back to day surgery on bed 40. | 0:18:56 | 0:19:00 | |
We'll be back with her as she's reunited with husband Stuart. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:04 | |
The Great North Children's Hospital in Newcastle | 0:19:10 | 0:19:12 | |
has its own emergency department for children who are 16 and under. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:15 | |
-PHONE RINGS -Hello, Paed A&E. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:19 | |
Its nine A&E beds may be small, | 0:19:21 | 0:19:23 | |
but they work nonstop around the clock. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
We have nine beds in total. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:30 | |
We've got six cubicles | 0:19:30 | 0:19:31 | |
and then we've got three monitoring beds behind us here. | 0:19:31 | 0:19:35 | |
The monitoring beds are used as a step down from Resus, | 0:19:35 | 0:19:38 | |
so for sick children that need a bit more one-on-one care. | 0:19:38 | 0:19:42 | |
Today, paediatric A&E bed 27 is expecting a four-year-old. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:47 | |
-So, if I can get Theon to have a seat on the bed. -Yeah, sure. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:52 | |
Parents Sarah and Mark have rushed their son, Theon, | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
to the emergency department with stomach pain. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:58 | |
Less than a month ago, | 0:19:58 | 0:20:00 | |
he had emergency surgery to remove a bowel blockage. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:04 | |
He's being assessed by Nurse McGee. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
Whilst on holiday in Dubai, we thought he had a little tummy bug... | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
-Uh-huh. -..which turned into something a bit more sinister. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
-He actually had a intussusception in his bowel. -Uh-huh. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
-So, he's had part of his intestine removed out there. -OK. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:20 | |
And everything's been doing great up until last night, | 0:20:20 | 0:20:23 | |
when he started getting a bit of | 0:20:23 | 0:20:25 | |
-loose bowel movements, with no pain. -OK. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:28 | |
But today he's complained quite a lot of the pain | 0:20:28 | 0:20:30 | |
and on the scar tissue across. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:31 | |
-And has he had loose stools this morning, as well? -Yeah. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:34 | |
The thing is, it's a similar colour to what it was | 0:20:34 | 0:20:36 | |
the day before it all kicked off. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:37 | |
-Right. -So, that's why we're just... -It was quite mucus-y. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:40 | |
So we just want to make sure he's all right. | 0:20:40 | 0:20:43 | |
Can we take your jacket off, darling? | 0:20:50 | 0:20:52 | |
-I don't want to... -ALL TALK | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
Oh, don't cry. It's OK! | 0:20:54 | 0:20:57 | |
Oh, listen. It's the tickly one. | 0:20:57 | 0:20:59 | |
-Do you remember the one you liked? -ALL TALK | 0:20:59 | 0:21:02 | |
It won't hurt. I promise it won't hurt. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:05 | |
This one won't hurt. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:06 | |
Intussusception is the most common cause of bowel blockages | 0:21:06 | 0:21:09 | |
in young children. | 0:21:09 | 0:21:10 | |
If left untreated, | 0:21:14 | 0:21:15 | |
this condition can be extremely serious. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:18 | |
Wow. That's OK. | 0:21:18 | 0:21:20 | |
MACHINE BEEPS | 0:21:20 | 0:21:21 | |
-HE SNIFFLES -You've been very brave. -Don't cry. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:25 | |
'We were just at the pool and it was a normal day' | 0:21:27 | 0:21:31 | |
on our nice holiday, and he started saying he had a bit of tummy pain | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
and felt a little bit sick, so Mark took him out of the pool | 0:21:34 | 0:21:36 | |
and he was sick and we thought, | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
"Oh, maybe he's just had too many milkshakes." | 0:21:38 | 0:21:40 | |
-The hotel had a... -Medical centre. -It had a medical centre, | 0:21:40 | 0:21:42 | |
so we just went down to see them. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:44 | |
They didn't even check him. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:45 | |
They just said he needs to go to hospital straightaway, | 0:21:45 | 0:21:47 | |
something's not right. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:48 | |
The surgeon came out and said he needed surgery there and then, | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
cos the situation he was in, it was like a life-saving operation, | 0:21:51 | 0:21:55 | |
it was urgent surgery. | 0:21:55 | 0:21:56 | |
An X-ray is the only way of determining | 0:21:59 | 0:22:02 | |
four-year-old Theon's condition. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
You worry. You hope to God that it's not... | 0:22:07 | 0:22:08 | |
we're not going down the same route as before, with this obstruction. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:13 | |
We'll return to Theon as he gets his crucial X-ray results. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:18 | |
Coming up on The Secret Life Of The Hospital Bed... | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
On Resus bed five, the battle is on to save 65-year-old David's life. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:36 | |
It's a bad infection, and it can kill patients quite quickly, | 0:22:37 | 0:22:40 | |
especially the elderly and the young. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:42 | |
In Birmingham, on day surgery bed 40, | 0:22:45 | 0:22:48 | |
Lisa's reunited with her husband Stuart. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:51 | |
And in Romford, on maternity bed 6, | 0:22:56 | 0:22:59 | |
49-year-old Shola faces surgery to give birth to her triplets. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:03 | |
Multiple pregnancy is high-risk. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:06 | |
No matter how many babies, it's high-risk in itself. | 0:23:06 | 0:23:09 | |
Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:18 | |
Resus bed five has being occupied by 65-year-old David for over an hour. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:22 | |
He's being treated for sepsis, a life-threatening condition. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:27 | |
His blood pressure is dangerously low. | 0:23:29 | 0:23:31 | |
I think we'll have to make him well enough to go to monitoring. | 0:23:34 | 0:23:38 | |
His blood pressure still keeps dropping. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
Sorry, my darling. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:43 | |
Sepsis is the body's reaction to severe infection | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
and has to be caught early. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:49 | |
Without quick treatment, it can lead to multiple organ failure, | 0:23:49 | 0:23:53 | |
meaning David could die. | 0:23:53 | 0:23:54 | |
All that fluid gone through, is it? | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
Yeah, that one's gone. The gentamicin's just about finished. | 0:23:57 | 0:24:00 | |
-Do you want another bag? -Yeah, we can have a further 500. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:03 | |
-Another 500? -Yeah. | 0:24:03 | 0:24:06 | |
He's had IV fluids and IV antibiotics, which he's had as well, | 0:24:06 | 0:24:10 | |
so we're treating him as definitely being septic. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:14 | |
Hospital staff are on high alert for sepsis cases. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
Sepsis, it could be anywhere. It's a bad infection anywhere, and it can | 0:24:17 | 0:24:22 | |
kill patients quite quickly, | 0:24:22 | 0:24:25 | |
especially the elderly and the young. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:27 | |
David has now been in Resus for an hour and a half. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:31 | |
The antibiotics are starting to take effect | 0:24:35 | 0:24:38 | |
and he's showing signs of improvement. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
He does look a little better now and he's ready for his sleep now. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:45 | |
-Won't be too long. -He does, he looks a hell of a lot better. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:48 | |
Does look a lot better. | 0:24:48 | 0:24:51 | |
It appears the worst may be over. | 0:24:51 | 0:24:53 | |
There's a bed on the assessment suite. Do you want to go now? | 0:24:54 | 0:24:56 | |
Yeah. | 0:24:56 | 0:24:58 | |
David is finally stable enough to be moved off Resus bed five and onto a ward. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:04 | |
It seems the antibiotic injection caught the infection just in time. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:08 | |
From our point of view, he's a lot more stable than what he was when he | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
first came in. So we've got a monitored bed for him on the | 0:25:13 | 0:25:16 | |
assessment suite where he'll be under the medical team. | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
They will just carry on treating his sepsis and get him a little bit more stable. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:23 | |
They normally stay on the assessment suite for 24-48 hours. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:27 | |
I'll get you right in here. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:31 | |
We'll get you comfy and we'll get you sorted. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:33 | |
With a comfortable few hours on the ward, he's starting to rally. | 0:25:37 | 0:25:40 | |
When I first woke up I was a bit disorientated, the first time. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:49 | |
Then it came back to us after a little while where I was. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:53 | |
I'm fine. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:55 | |
David will have to stay in hospital overnight to continue his treatment. | 0:25:55 | 0:25:59 | |
Back in Romford, at Queen's Hospital, | 0:26:04 | 0:26:07 | |
maternity bed six is with 49-year-old Shola. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:10 | |
Today she is having triplets by Caesarean section. | 0:26:10 | 0:26:13 | |
-Morning. -It's a very risky and complicated birth. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:21 | |
Shola's husband Ike will be with her in theatre. | 0:26:21 | 0:26:24 | |
-I'd like to take you down to the labour ward, please. -Yay! | 0:26:24 | 0:26:28 | |
Do I go with all my notes? | 0:26:28 | 0:26:30 | |
-Everything. -I'm ready. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:32 | |
I'll just get the midwife to come and get you. | 0:26:32 | 0:26:34 | |
OK. Am I walking down? | 0:26:34 | 0:26:36 | |
Less than 200 women in the UK gave birth to triplets last year. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:42 | |
-Pleasure to meet you both. You're in good hands. -Thank you. | 0:26:42 | 0:26:44 | |
Thank you, thank you very much. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:49 | |
The mortality rate for triplets is ten times higher | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
than for single births. | 0:26:52 | 0:26:54 | |
Midwife Pattinson will be one of more than a dozen medical staff | 0:26:59 | 0:27:03 | |
helping to deliver Shola's three babies. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:05 | |
We will have three midwives | 0:27:07 | 0:27:09 | |
so that there's a midwife to take each baby. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:11 | |
We have three of the Resuscitaires, | 0:27:11 | 0:27:13 | |
so the equipment to Resuscitate the babies, if we need. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
We will also have three paediatricians present, | 0:27:16 | 0:27:18 | |
one for each baby, and then on top of that, | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
we will have the normal theatre team, as well. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:24 | |
After trying to have children for 20 years, | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
Shola is now carrying two sons and a daughter. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:31 | |
Have you got hats for baby, your hats? | 0:27:32 | 0:27:35 | |
-Yeah. -Yeah? | 0:27:35 | 0:27:36 | |
Consultant gynaecologist Mr Opemuyi | 0:27:38 | 0:27:41 | |
is in charge of Shola's Caesarean. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:43 | |
The average pregnancy lasts around 40 weeks, | 0:27:44 | 0:27:47 | |
but triplets are often born prematurely. | 0:27:47 | 0:27:51 | |
We've had to adjust the timing of the delivery | 0:27:51 | 0:27:54 | |
and she is only about 33 weeks today, | 0:27:54 | 0:27:56 | |
and what is important is the safety of the babies. | 0:27:56 | 0:28:00 | |
It's 8.49am and time to go into theatre. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:03 | |
Maternity bed six will have to stay on the ward. | 0:28:04 | 0:28:09 | |
OK? All right? | 0:28:09 | 0:28:11 | |
Would I be allowed to take pictures in there? | 0:28:11 | 0:28:13 | |
Yes, of course, yes. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:15 | |
We have a waiting game. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:17 | |
The prayer warriors! | 0:28:17 | 0:28:19 | |
Hello, morning. | 0:28:19 | 0:28:21 | |
So, just before you step up, my name is Susan, | 0:28:21 | 0:28:23 | |
-part of the anaesthetic team here. -OK. | 0:28:23 | 0:28:25 | |
So, if I can just get your gown undone here. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:28 | |
So, what you are going to do is step up onto this stool, | 0:28:28 | 0:28:30 | |
turn around and face the wall there. | 0:28:30 | 0:28:32 | |
Excited and elated. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:37 | |
Yeah. | 0:28:37 | 0:28:39 | |
Shola's friends, Olushola and Stella, | 0:28:39 | 0:28:42 | |
are waiting in her room with maternity bed six. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:46 | |
I'm so happy for Shola that she has got this, God has been good to her. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:50 | |
Yeah. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
To know that she is going to be a mother of triplets today, | 0:28:52 | 0:28:56 | |
it's amazing. | 0:28:56 | 0:28:58 | |
She has waited a long time. | 0:28:58 | 0:29:01 | |
-Sir, you are about to have three babies, come on! -All right. | 0:29:01 | 0:29:05 | |
Yeah, come on, then. | 0:29:05 | 0:29:06 | |
-She's doing very well, all right? -Oh, thank you. | 0:29:06 | 0:29:09 | |
-She's fine. -All right. -Follow me. | 0:29:09 | 0:29:12 | |
Shola's two friends know the risks involved with multiple births. | 0:29:14 | 0:29:18 | |
They're praying for healthy babies. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:20 | |
We'll rejoin Shola later in theatre. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:26 | |
Back at Newcastle's Great North Children's Hospital, | 0:29:35 | 0:29:38 | |
four-year-old Theon has left paediatric bed 27. | 0:29:38 | 0:29:41 | |
He is on his way to X-ray. | 0:29:45 | 0:29:47 | |
Wow, look! The toys! | 0:29:47 | 0:29:49 | |
Around a month ago, | 0:29:49 | 0:29:51 | |
he had life-saving surgery to fix a bowel blockage. | 0:29:51 | 0:29:54 | |
Mum Sarah and dad Mark fear the blockage has returned. | 0:29:56 | 0:29:59 | |
We've had some blood taken. | 0:30:00 | 0:30:02 | |
That's just to check for any infection, anything like that. | 0:30:02 | 0:30:05 | |
Hopefully, they'll come back soon. | 0:30:05 | 0:30:07 | |
And, in the meantime, we've been sent here for an X-ray | 0:30:07 | 0:30:09 | |
of his abdomen to check everything, all the bowels and intestines. | 0:30:09 | 0:30:13 | |
We are just concerned, obviously, | 0:30:13 | 0:30:14 | |
until we have the X-ray done and the bloods back to know what's going on. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:19 | |
There's the worry about the operation | 0:30:19 | 0:30:21 | |
that he had done out in Dubai. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:22 | |
Is there some complication that has arisen since that? | 0:30:22 | 0:30:24 | |
Or is it something else going on? | 0:30:24 | 0:30:27 | |
There's still a lot of anxiety until you know. | 0:30:27 | 0:30:30 | |
Radiographer Wilson will be carrying out the X-ray. | 0:30:32 | 0:30:35 | |
There you go, big boy. | 0:30:37 | 0:30:39 | |
Right, Theon, I'm Nicola. | 0:30:39 | 0:30:41 | |
I'm going to take your X-ray, OK? | 0:30:41 | 0:30:43 | |
-Are you speaking? -How old are you? -How old, Theon? | 0:30:43 | 0:30:45 | |
-Four. -Four! -SARAH LAUGHS | 0:30:45 | 0:30:47 | |
-Right, are you ready? -Yeah? | 0:30:47 | 0:30:49 | |
Ooh! | 0:30:49 | 0:30:50 | |
The last time Theon was on a hospital bed, | 0:30:55 | 0:30:58 | |
he needed a life-saving operation. | 0:30:58 | 0:31:00 | |
That's it. Breathe in. | 0:31:07 | 0:31:09 | |
-Breathing in. -And out! | 0:31:09 | 0:31:10 | |
And just hold your breath. That's it. | 0:31:12 | 0:31:15 | |
The X-ray will determine | 0:31:15 | 0:31:17 | |
if four-year-old Theon is at risk again. | 0:31:17 | 0:31:19 | |
Oh, bless him. | 0:31:19 | 0:31:21 | |
Yep, you're all finished! | 0:31:25 | 0:31:26 | |
Looking at his bowel... | 0:31:29 | 0:31:32 | |
-He's had previous surgery. Is that correct? -Yeah. -Yes. | 0:31:32 | 0:31:34 | |
Three-and-a-half hours after being admitted, | 0:31:37 | 0:31:39 | |
Theon is taken back to bed 27. | 0:31:39 | 0:31:42 | |
Why are you moving up here, Mummy? | 0:31:42 | 0:31:44 | |
-To sit next to you. -To sit next to you. | 0:31:44 | 0:31:47 | |
If that's OK with you. | 0:31:47 | 0:31:48 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:31:48 | 0:31:50 | |
Hm? | 0:31:50 | 0:31:52 | |
How beautiful are you, Theon? | 0:31:52 | 0:31:54 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:31:54 | 0:31:56 | |
How beautiful are you? | 0:31:56 | 0:31:58 | |
-What's the time, Mummy? -The time? | 0:31:58 | 0:32:00 | |
The time is 1:10. | 0:32:00 | 0:32:03 | |
So we can go home now? | 0:32:03 | 0:32:05 | |
Not much longer now. | 0:32:05 | 0:32:07 | |
Hello, how are we doing? | 0:32:07 | 0:32:09 | |
How's your tummy? | 0:32:09 | 0:32:10 | |
-OK. -Is it feeling OK? | 0:32:10 | 0:32:13 | |
Nurse McGee has the results. | 0:32:13 | 0:32:15 | |
His X-ray is all clear. | 0:32:15 | 0:32:18 | |
Four-year-old Theon does not have a blocked bowel. | 0:32:18 | 0:32:21 | |
Lovely. If you have a little seat in the waiting room. | 0:32:21 | 0:32:24 | |
OK? Okey-dokey. | 0:32:24 | 0:32:25 | |
Theon and his parents can go home. | 0:32:26 | 0:32:29 | |
Well, that's good news. His X-ray looks absolutely normal. | 0:32:29 | 0:32:32 | |
Everything's healed from the previous surgery that he's just had. | 0:32:32 | 0:32:35 | |
His blood tests were all normal. | 0:32:35 | 0:32:37 | |
And it's fine for us to go home and just keep a check on him. | 0:32:37 | 0:32:39 | |
Things look good for the future for him, so we're happy. | 0:32:39 | 0:32:42 | |
And you've no more pain, have you? You're doing good. | 0:32:42 | 0:32:45 | |
Do you want to go home now? | 0:32:45 | 0:32:46 | |
-LAUGHTER -I think he's absolutely delighted | 0:32:46 | 0:32:48 | |
to go home to his own bed. He can't wait. | 0:32:48 | 0:32:50 | |
-And neither can I. -LAUGHTER | 0:32:50 | 0:32:52 | |
At the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, | 0:33:08 | 0:33:11 | |
bed 40 is heading back to the day surgery ward. | 0:33:11 | 0:33:13 | |
Its patient, 44-year-old Lisa, | 0:33:17 | 0:33:19 | |
has just had a new pacemaker battery fitted. | 0:33:19 | 0:33:22 | |
THEY TALK | 0:33:24 | 0:33:25 | |
You can come on in. You can come in. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:27 | |
Husband Stuart is by her side as she comes round from sedation. | 0:33:27 | 0:33:31 | |
Take care. | 0:33:31 | 0:33:33 | |
THEY TALK | 0:33:33 | 0:33:35 | |
SHE SOBS | 0:33:58 | 0:33:59 | |
'Lisa's a very brave, lovely woman. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:18 | |
'Lovely mother. Couldn't wish for a better wife, or mother. | 0:34:18 | 0:34:22 | |
'The children are her world. | 0:34:22 | 0:34:24 | |
'She looks after me and the children more than enough | 0:34:26 | 0:34:30 | |
'and it's our time to repay her.' | 0:34:30 | 0:34:33 | |
Lisa has a serious heart condition. | 0:34:33 | 0:34:36 | |
This is the third heart operation she's had to keep her alive. | 0:34:36 | 0:34:40 | |
Lisa's friend, Kay, is back to visit. | 0:34:42 | 0:34:45 | |
-They brought you a coffee. -Ooh! | 0:34:45 | 0:34:48 | |
A woman after me own heart! | 0:34:48 | 0:34:49 | |
You know, don't you? | 0:34:49 | 0:34:51 | |
How are you? | 0:34:51 | 0:34:53 | |
All right. It was just the box change, | 0:34:53 | 0:34:55 | |
-so it was quicker than anticipated, which was good. -Yeah. | 0:34:55 | 0:34:58 | |
Do you notice a big difference once they've changed the box? | 0:34:58 | 0:35:01 | |
Not yet. I will do... | 0:35:01 | 0:35:04 | |
-In a few days? -Yeah. | 0:35:04 | 0:35:06 | |
Yeah. | 0:35:06 | 0:35:07 | |
Oh, thank you, Lisa! | 0:35:07 | 0:35:09 | |
Thank you ever so much, chick. | 0:35:09 | 0:35:12 | |
You're a star. | 0:35:12 | 0:35:13 | |
So, if you're feeling up to it after this, | 0:35:13 | 0:35:16 | |
-we'll go for a little stand and see how you're feeling. -OK. | 0:35:16 | 0:35:19 | |
Lisa's pacemaker is now fully charged. | 0:35:19 | 0:35:22 | |
Her life can begin to return to normal. | 0:35:22 | 0:35:25 | |
She'll be released as soon as she can find all her belongings. | 0:35:25 | 0:35:28 | |
They made me take my underwear off in the theatre. | 0:35:28 | 0:35:31 | |
So, somewhere... | 0:35:31 | 0:35:33 | |
I don't know where... | 0:35:33 | 0:35:36 | |
-Is your... -Undercrackers. -There'll be some undercrackers. | 0:35:36 | 0:35:39 | |
They'll turn up the end of the day! | 0:35:39 | 0:35:40 | |
-LAUGHTER -Oh, no! | 0:35:40 | 0:35:43 | |
-Normally, they're under here. -Oh! | 0:35:43 | 0:35:45 | |
So, I'm just apologising to the cleaners. | 0:35:45 | 0:35:48 | |
-LAUGHTER -Oh, no! | 0:35:48 | 0:35:50 | |
Don't worry. I can get... | 0:35:50 | 0:35:52 | |
-They weren't special pants, were they? -No. I can get home... | 0:35:52 | 0:35:55 | |
-Anniversary pants or anything? -LAUGHTER | 0:35:55 | 0:35:57 | |
I can get home commando. You're OK. | 0:35:57 | 0:35:59 | |
-LAUGHTER -I know, but... | 0:35:59 | 0:36:01 | |
Oh, has she put them there? Has she? | 0:36:01 | 0:36:04 | |
Bless her. Yeah. | 0:36:04 | 0:36:05 | |
-LAUGHTER -Do you recognise them? | 0:36:05 | 0:36:07 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:36:07 | 0:36:09 | |
-Anyway... -Right, then. | 0:36:09 | 0:36:12 | |
I'm just going to get you up, OK? | 0:36:12 | 0:36:14 | |
Problem solved, Lisa is now ready to leave day surgery bed 40. | 0:36:14 | 0:36:19 | |
-Thank you for all your help today. -You're very welcome. -You've been a star. | 0:36:19 | 0:36:23 | |
-Thank you. -Thank you. -You really have, you've worked really hard. | 0:36:23 | 0:36:26 | |
Thank you ever so much. Thanks to all your staff, as well. | 0:36:26 | 0:36:29 | |
-Thank you. -OK? Bye. -Bye. | 0:36:29 | 0:36:32 | |
'I can't explain the feeling. | 0:36:32 | 0:36:34 | |
'It's sort of like a heaviness' | 0:36:34 | 0:36:35 | |
that I had before and just felt, you know... | 0:36:35 | 0:36:38 | |
But I do feel lighter. | 0:36:38 | 0:36:40 | |
Rest up for a few days. | 0:36:40 | 0:36:43 | |
Easy exercise to begin with. | 0:36:43 | 0:36:45 | |
And then, gradually, build up back to my three times a week. | 0:36:45 | 0:36:49 | |
-She's in good hands. -You've done it before. -Yeah, I've done it before. | 0:36:50 | 0:36:53 | |
-He is quite domesticated, so... -Yeah. -..you'll be OK. -Yep. | 0:36:53 | 0:36:56 | |
Well, we'll see if he can look after the house and the girls. | 0:36:56 | 0:37:01 | |
Obviously, he won't be as good as me, but I shall... | 0:37:01 | 0:37:05 | |
rest up for a couple of weeks and I'm sure he'll do a grand job. | 0:37:05 | 0:37:09 | |
At Queen's Hospital in Romford, | 0:37:21 | 0:37:22 | |
maternity bed six is empty and will be for a while. | 0:37:22 | 0:37:26 | |
Keep coming back until I ask you to stop. | 0:37:26 | 0:37:28 | |
Keep coming back. Well done. That's perfect. | 0:37:28 | 0:37:30 | |
49-year-old Shola is having triplets by Caesarean section. | 0:37:31 | 0:37:36 | |
Gosh, you're brave! Three of them! | 0:37:36 | 0:37:38 | |
-I know. -Oh, dear, you're brave. | 0:37:38 | 0:37:41 | |
-Buy one, get two free. -Oh, lovely - Tesco's don't do that! | 0:37:41 | 0:37:44 | |
Shola is one of the many mums giving birth later in life. | 0:37:45 | 0:37:48 | |
In the last decade, | 0:37:51 | 0:37:52 | |
the number of women having babies over the age of 45 has trebled. | 0:37:52 | 0:37:57 | |
Husband Ike will be by her side throughout. | 0:37:57 | 0:38:00 | |
-Are you all right? -I'm all right. -You're all right. Good. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:10 | |
There will be three midwives in theatre today, one for each baby. | 0:38:10 | 0:38:14 | |
Midwife Pattinson is one of them. | 0:38:15 | 0:38:18 | |
Multiple pregnancy is high-risk. | 0:38:18 | 0:38:20 | |
No matter how many babies, it's high-risk in itself | 0:38:20 | 0:38:23 | |
and the triplets will be delivered at 33 weeks, | 0:38:23 | 0:38:25 | |
so obviously that is quite a bit | 0:38:25 | 0:38:28 | |
before they're classified as term babies, | 0:38:28 | 0:38:30 | |
so that makes them then high-risk. | 0:38:30 | 0:38:33 | |
Today's procedure also carries danger for Shola. | 0:38:34 | 0:38:38 | |
She has a greater risk of haemorrhaging during the delivery. | 0:38:38 | 0:38:42 | |
At the side of maternity bed six, Shola's friends, | 0:38:47 | 0:38:50 | |
Olushola and Stella, are waiting for news. | 0:38:50 | 0:38:53 | |
They're up and running, Shola - just wait and see who comes first. | 0:39:12 | 0:39:16 | |
At just 33 weeks, the triplets are being delivered prematurely. | 0:39:20 | 0:39:25 | |
There are concerns one of the babies is very small. | 0:39:25 | 0:39:28 | |
Shola has been in theatre for 25 minutes. | 0:39:37 | 0:39:39 | |
BABY CRIES | 0:39:39 | 0:39:43 | |
The couple have waited nearly two decades for this moment. | 0:39:43 | 0:39:46 | |
The first baby is born. | 0:39:49 | 0:39:50 | |
It's a boy. | 0:39:52 | 0:39:53 | |
Then, one minute later... | 0:40:02 | 0:40:04 | |
BABY CRIES | 0:40:04 | 0:40:05 | |
There we go, number two. There we go. | 0:40:05 | 0:40:09 | |
Crying, that's a good sign. | 0:40:09 | 0:40:12 | |
Another boy - he is only 2lbs 4oz. | 0:40:12 | 0:40:17 | |
Crying, so that is a good sign. | 0:40:17 | 0:40:20 | |
We just wait for number three now. | 0:40:23 | 0:40:27 | |
This baby needs extra medical help and is placed in an incubator. | 0:40:37 | 0:40:41 | |
Finally, after just five more minutes, | 0:40:49 | 0:40:52 | |
baby three, a girl, is born. | 0:40:52 | 0:40:54 | |
-BABY CRIES -This one has to be a girl now. | 0:40:54 | 0:40:58 | |
Congratulations! Three babies! | 0:40:58 | 0:41:00 | |
Sorry, boys. | 0:41:12 | 0:41:14 | |
All the babies have been delivered safely. | 0:41:14 | 0:41:16 | |
On the ward, with maternity bed six, | 0:41:19 | 0:41:22 | |
are Shola's friends, Olushola and Stella. | 0:41:22 | 0:41:25 | |
# Perfect God You are excellent, God | 0:41:25 | 0:41:29 | |
# Perfect God You are excellent, God | 0:41:29 | 0:41:33 | |
# Perfect God You are excellent, God... # | 0:41:33 | 0:41:36 | |
Good to get that done now, babies out. It's a relief, | 0:41:39 | 0:41:43 | |
isn't it, that they're out? | 0:41:43 | 0:41:44 | |
-They were all crying well, weren't they? -Yes. | 0:41:44 | 0:41:46 | |
Good, lovely. | 0:41:46 | 0:41:48 | |
BEEPING | 0:41:48 | 0:41:51 | |
Go with him, Molly, go with him. | 0:41:51 | 0:41:54 | |
-Yeah, and then... -This the girl? -The girl! | 0:41:54 | 0:41:59 | |
This is the little girl, yeah. | 0:41:59 | 0:42:00 | |
To see them...very cute. | 0:42:02 | 0:42:05 | |
Lovely babies. | 0:42:05 | 0:42:08 | |
Wow, I'm so happy, I'm so happy! | 0:42:08 | 0:42:11 | |
# You are wonderful, God | 0:42:11 | 0:42:14 | |
# You are perfect, God... # | 0:42:14 | 0:42:17 | |
As the triplets are premature, | 0:42:20 | 0:42:22 | |
they'll be taken straight to the neonatal intensive care unit. | 0:42:22 | 0:42:25 | |
Shola and Ike will visit them later. | 0:42:25 | 0:42:28 | |
Our hospital beds have given us intimate access | 0:42:37 | 0:42:40 | |
to the work of the NHS. | 0:42:40 | 0:42:41 | |
Shola and Ike were soon able to visit their three new babies. | 0:42:43 | 0:42:47 | |
They're all now back at home, and doing well. | 0:42:47 | 0:42:50 | |
Theon had to go back to hospital again with tummy pain, but is now OK. | 0:42:53 | 0:42:57 | |
And Lisa's heart is beating well. She's back at work, and enjoying family life. | 0:43:02 | 0:43:07 | |
The beds are now back on their wards, | 0:43:10 | 0:43:12 | |
ready and waiting for their next round of patients. | 0:43:12 | 0:43:15 |