- Title: F-4628
- Summary: HOSPITAL SEPSIS: A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE: ESTABLISHES THE CONCEPT THAT HOSPITAL SEPSIS IS A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE AND UNLESS CARE IS TAKEN, IT CAN SPREAD THROUGHOUT AN ENTIRE HOSPITAL INFECTING OTHER PATIENTS. PRESENTS A CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT IN WHICH A PATIENT WITH A TEN YEAR HISTORY OF BOILS ENTERS THE HOSPITAL AND THROUGH A SERIES OF TESTS A POTENTIAL PATH OF INFECTION FROM HER TO OTHER PATIENTS IS TRACED. STEPS AMONG ALL HOSPITAL PERSONNEL TO COMBAT ITS SPREAD ARE STRESSED. SEPTICEMIA. SEPSIS SYNDROME.
- Description:00:03:26 - CU NURSE FILLING NEEDLE. 00:03:35 - FRIENDS, VISITORS IN HOSPITAL. 00:03:41 - NURSES BRING FLOWERS. LETTER 00:03:45 - FEMALE JANITOR WAXES FLOOR. 00:03:47 - OLD PEOPLE IN HOSPITAL BEDS. OLD LADY GETS HER TEMPERATURE TAKEN. NURSE TUCKS BED SHEETS IN. PATIENT RECEIVES TRAY OF HOSPITAL FOOD. CHECKS IV DRIP. JANITOR POLISHES FLOOR. NURSE GIVES SHOT TO PATIENT ON THE BACK. 00:04:11 - DOCTOR TAKES WOMAN'S TEMPERATURE. REMOVES BANDAGE FROM WOMAN'S ARM. GROSS INFECTION. 00:04:54 - ROOM DISINFECTED. BED WIPED. FURNITURE WASHED. WHOLE ROOM STERILIZED AND CLEANED. CULTURES TAKEN. FROM FLOOR, BEDDING AND AIR. IN PETRI DISHES. ASEPTIC ROOM. 00:05:34 - DOCTOR WITH FACE MASK. TAKING CULTURE FROM PATIENT TAKING CULTURE FROM THE FLOOR. SWABBING FLOOR. BACTERIA. TAKING AIR CULTURE USING TUBE IN MEDICAL CENTRIFUGE. 00:06:20 - BACTERIA ACCUMULATED IN BEDDING, FLOOR AND AIR IN 24 HOURS, SEEN UNDER MICROSCOPE 00:06:42 - CU PETRI DISHES WITH SEPSIS CULTURES. 00:07:01 - CU DOCTOR TAKING CULTURE FROM WOUND (COVERED UNDER SHEET). 00:07:05 - SWABBING FLOOR, COLLECTING CULTURES. CULTURE SEEN UNDER MICROSCOPE. MICROORGANISMS. 00:07:30 - CU GRAPH BACTERIA PER SQUARE INCH, NUMBERS RISING 00 07 55 NURSE WEARING MASK STANDING OVER OLDER FEMALE PATIENT GETTING SHOT. 00:08:13 - ORDERLY WEARING SURGICAL MASK CHANGING HOSPITAL BED SHEETS. REMOVING SHEETS. TAKING AN AIR SAMPLE WHILE BED IS BEING MADE. CU TUBE FILLED WITH ORGANISMS. 00:08:42 - CHART SHOWING BACTERIA PER SQUARE FOOT 00:09:15 - NURSE TAKING CULTURE FROM WOMAN'S NOSE. Q-TIPS. 00:09:22 - CU CULTURES FROM NOSE, FINGERS, HAIR, FECAL SWAB. TOES, CARBUNCLE CULTURE. HOW INFECTION SPREADS. 00:10:02 - NURSE FLUSHES HOSPITAL TOILET. 00:10:08 - ECU PETRI DISH WITH CULTURE TAKEN FROM TOILET SEAT. 00:10:13 - PATIENT WEARING SLIPPERS SHUFFLES INTO HOSPITAL ISOLATION ROOM. WALKING IN ROOM. FEET. 00:10:26 - ECU GLASS TUNE WITH CULTURE TAKEN FROM CORRIDOR 00:10:41 - DOCTOR WEARING SURGICAL MASK TAKES CULTURE FROM PATIENT. ECU PETRI DISH WITH MICROORGANISMS TAKEN FROM DRESSING 00:11:02 - DOCTOR OPENS BANDAGE, LOOKS AT WOUND 00:11:16 - DOCTOR WEARING MASK PUTS ON PLASTIC GLOVES, CLEANS WOUND. 00:11:30 - ECU OLD LADY TALKING. ECU SLOW MOTION MOUTH FORMING WORDS, SPRAY FROM CONVERSATION SPREADS INFECTION. 00:11:50 - DOCTOR CHANGING WOUND DRESSING. HUGE RED SORE. 00:12:13 - DOCTOR HANGING MEDICAL GOWN. DISINFECTION. DISINFECTING HIMSELF. STEPPING ON CLEANING PAD. WASHES HIS HANDS IN DISINFECTANT. 00:12:26 - ANIMATION SHOWS ROUTES INFECTION SPREADS THROUGH HOSPITAL. 00:13:02 - NURSE TESTS MOP WATER. SIDE BY SIDE CULTURES TAKEN AT TWO DIFFERENT TIMES OF THE DAY. 00:13:32 - ANIMATION SHOWS HOW INFECTION SPREADS 00:15:19 - JANITOR MOPPING FLOOR OF HOSPITAL ROOM. 00:15:39 - CU PETRI DISHES WITH CULTURES BEFORE MOP & AFTER MOP 00:16:02 - CU VACUUMING UNDER HOSPITAL BED. VACUUM CLEANER. POURING BUCKET OF WATER ON FLOOR. DETERGENT GERMICIDE. CLEANS UP WITH A WET VACUUM. 00:16:18 - CU PETRI DISHES WITH CULTURES 00:16:30 - OLD WOMAN GETS OUT OF HOSPITAL BED. 00:16:40 - GRAPH SHOWING BACTERIA PER SQUARE INCH IN BEDDING 00:17:04 - ORDERLY WEARING MASK CHANGING BED SHEETS, ROLLS UP SHEETS TO PREVENT INFECTION, 00:17:58 - MAN DUMPS LAUNDRY DOWN. CHUTE. SOILED LINEN. 00:18:03 - BLACK LAUNDRY WORKER PUTS SHEETS IN INDUSTRIAL WASHER. POURING IN DETERGENT. COVERED LAUNDRY CARTS. 00:19:07 - MS NURSE WASHES MATTRESS. WIPES IT DOWN. PLASTIC COVER. 00:19:20 - NURSE TAKES CULTURE FROM PATIENT'S BLANKET. CU CULTURE IN PETRI DISH 00:19:40 - OLD WOMAN IN HOSPITAL POURS WATER FROM PITCHER. PATIENT. 00:20:10 - BLACK NURSE PUTS PLASTIC LINER IN PITCHER. ICE CUBE PUT IN WITH TONGS. FILLED WITH WATER FROM SINK 00:20:41 - CU HOSPITAL OBJECTS HANGING FROM STRINGS IN LIMBO 00:20:59 - CU SOAP IN DISH 00:21:09 - ANIMATION SHOWS SPREAD OF INFECTION THROUGH THE AIR IN HOSPITAL. AIRBORNE BACTERIA 00:22:00 - ASIAN MAINTENANCE MAN TOUCHING AIR CONDITIONING FILTER. BACTERIA SLIME. ADDING BACTERIAL AGENT TO TANK OF WATER FOR HUMIDIFIER. VENTILATION SYSTEM. 00:22:34 - ANIMATION SHOWS AIR CURRENTS THROUGH VENTILATION SYSTEM 00:23:11 - CU SMOKE COMING OUT OF DOOR. HUGE PILE OF LAUNDRY. NURSERY ON FIRE. SMOKE PASSING OVER SOILED LINEN, 00:23:33 - ANIMATED AIR CURRENTS IN HOSPITAL. 00:24:26 - SURGEON REMOVES RUBBER GLOVES. HUGE GROSS INFECTION ON HIS HAND. 00:24:36 - ORDERLY LIFTS PATIENT OFF HIS BED INTO CHAIR 00:24:50 - ANIMATION BACTERIA SPREAD, NASAL, 00:25:08 - CU SLOW MOTION SNEEZE WOMAN SNEEZES SPREADING GERMS BACTERIA 00:25:33 - CU SLOW MOTION PERSON WEARING SURGICAL MASK SNEEZES. 00:26:11 - DOCTOR WASHES HIS HANDS. 00:26:17 - OLD WOMAN GETS INTO HOSPITAL BED, TAKES OFF HER SLIPPERS. 00:26:30 - ANIMATION SHOWING ELIMINATION OF BACTERIAL INFECTION. SEPTIC FERMENTS. 00:27:20 - FILM ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1960
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: F-4628