Preemies: A Fight For Life Video (VHS)
Preemies
The Fight for Life
Born too small and too soon, premature babies present doctors with some of today's toughest medical challenges -- fighting simply to stay alive.
Each year, millions of babies around the world are born premature. Some die just moments after birth; others continue to vie for strength and health. Some will lose, some will win -- but all must fight for life.
Preemies takes you to the very heart of their battle for survival: the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Doctors struggle to keep preemies' fragile lungs from collapsing, performing critical operations on infants weighing less than two pounds. Helpless, parents watch and wait, never knowing if their children will make it... never knowing if their children will ever come home.
Preemies: The Fight for Life is a one-hour documentary that focuses on the treatment and care of these tiny infants.
Attend the emergency C-section delivery of Baby Jada. Born 12 weeks early. Jada is quickly put on a ventilator and rushed into the NICU.
Watch as surgeons perform an urgent operation to close an opening in baby Neil's tiny heart.
Meet the team of doctors who developed the medical advances that have dramatically improved outcomes for thousands of premature babies.
Hear from parents as they experience the hour-to-hour ups and downs of their children's conditions.
Candid interviews. On-scene video as the action unfolds. Preemies: The Fight for Life is a gripping and unforgettable look into the lives of premature babies, their families and the professionals who fight to keep them alive.
Airing on DISCOVERY CHANNEL USA
This video is available from Discovery Channel.
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Chance to Grow
~Production Notes from a Digital Documentary Film
by Claire Panke
Chance to Grow, a documentary film by neonatal nurse Claire Marie Panke, will have its world premiere at the DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival in Durham, NC. The film follows three families as they navigate the unpredictable terrain of a newborn intensive care unit, or NICU, and will air on The Discovery Channel during the latter half of 2000.
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Special Beginnings is a wonderful video to introduce families to the NICU. Centering Corporation spent a day in a unit, asking parents what they would like to tell new NICU parents about the roller coaster emotions of the NICU experience. This video is available from A Place To Remember. |
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