{"id":257116,"date":"2026-01-22T01:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/257116\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:39:42","slug":"tv-documentary-follows-story-of-patient-brought-to-cuh-suffering-a-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/257116\/","title":{"rendered":"TV documentary follows story of patient brought to CUH suffering a heart attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Its 1am, and Christy is having a heart attack. He is on his way to CUH from University Hospital Waterford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">That is the dramatic setting for the next episode of the documentary series Any Given Day: Cork University Hospital on RT\u00c91 on Wednesday at 9.35pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">CUH Registrar Dylan Finnerty has been in constant contact with Consultant Cardiologist Richard Tanner and Christy\u2019s emergency situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Richard is on-call for such responses, and has made a decision to activate the Catheterization Lab, a specialised room with advanced imaging for the treatment of heart conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Also in next week\u2019s episode, we visit the Paediatric Allergy clinic in CUH, which is busy. Patients here are treated for a range of challenges including food allergies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Eleven-year-old Ciaran was diagnosed with a severe peanut allergy at an early age, and has arrived at today for an Oral Food Challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Also at CUH, we follow Surgical Oncologist Mark Corrigan as he operates on Antoinette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In November, 2024, Antoinette received a breast cancer diagnosis and had a mastectomy on her right breast. Subsequent tests revealed that she has a variant of the BRCA gene, which increases the risk of several cancers, especially breast cancers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Antoinette has made a big decision. She is in CUH to remove her healthy breast and to have a reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Meanwhile, a five-year-old girl is being rushed to CUH. She is barely conscious and her vitals are poor. The Emergency Department team is standing by\u2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Surgeon James Harty is also preparing for major surgery. Patient Brian Murphy requires a total femur replacement to try and keep him walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Its 1am, and Christy is having a heart attack. He is on his way to CUH from University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-257116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}