Unit on the Brink: E9 - Keeping the Faith
Jun 24, 2021Months after the winter surge, hope was still hard to come by for many of the healthcare workers in the MICU. The new normal of the unit under COVID-19 was pushing even some of the most veteran staff to their limits. Charge Christy Mulder turns to her faith to help her through until she received t ... Read More
Unit on the Brink: E8 - Saying Goodbye
Apr 15, 2021During our visit to the MICU, the strain and struggle against an increasingly mortal virus was painfully apparent. During the Winter surge of 2020, nurses and frontline workers faced death in a volume that few had experienced before; whether accompanying relatives and patients in their final moments ... Read More
Unit on the Brink: E7 - Here with the COVID
Apr 1, 2021By December of 2020, the winter surge of COVID-19 patients had finally arrived in Utah and frontline workers at University Hospital were bearing the brunt of a new wave of critically ill patients. Producers Stephen Dark and Mitch Sears visited the MICU during an early morning shift change on Decembe ... Read More
Keeper of the Keys
Dec 18, 2020Armed with an arsenal of cleaners, a regiment of protocols, and a wealth of knowledge about microscopic enemies, the technicians at Environmental Services are tasked with ensuring the safety of each person that enters the healthcare facilities at University of Utah Health. These professionals are so ... Read More
Unit on the Brink: E6 - Waiting to Exhale
Oct 6, 2020Inside the University Hospital Medical Intensive unit, the summer months are typically their “off-season,” with low-numbers of critical patients. It was a few months to take a breath and collect themselves before flu season begins in the fall. But the Summer of 2020 proved to be painfully differ ... Read More
Unit on the Brink: E5 - Keepers of Hope
Sep 24, 2020An ambulance pulled up to University Hospital, carrying a man experiencing severe pains in his chest and shortness of breath. The 42-year-old veteran had felt fine a few days prior - a little headache and a sore throat - only to fall into a state of fever, chills, and hypoxia. He had been put on a ... Read More
Unit on the Brink: E4 - The Last Resort
Sep 15, 2020By April, the governor’s stay-at-home directive seemed to be working. New COVID-19 positive cases appeared to be leveling off. But the new rules aimed at keeping everyone safe had also led to tens of thousands of Utahns losing their jobs. The MICU staff anxiously watched TV news stories about larg ... Read More
Unit on the Brink: E3 - Isolation Protocol
Sep 2, 2020For the citizens of Salt Lake City, by the first weeks of March 2020, nerves were already shredded. COVID-19 positive cases were rising. The governor called for a state of emergency and the city began to shut down. They had spent weeks picking through barren shelves at the grocery stores trying to g ... Read More
Unit on the Brink: E2 - Echoes of the Past
Aug 25, 2020COVID-19 was far from the world’s first go-around with a pandemic. In 2009, H1N1 claimed hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. For nurses at the MICU who had cared for patients back then, COVID-19 at times was a haunting replay of the painfully familiar fight to treat patients struggling to br ... Read More
Unit on the Brink: E1 - Duty of Care
Aug 19, 2020“It’s a battle of wanting to provide care and wanting to protect yourself and the people you love,” says nurse Megan Diehl. This tug of war is one critical care nurses faced constantly through the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the 4th floor of University of Utah Hospital, the medica ... Read More
Coming Soon: Unit on the Brink
Aug 12, 2020Introducing the newest Clinical series: Unit on the Brink: Voices from the COVID Frontline. This multi-part series delves deep into the stories behind the health care workers at University Hospital as they hold the line against the COVID-19 pandemic. Their stories offer a snapshot of the virus beari ... Read More
Pathogen Slayers
May 19, 2020In the midst of a pandemic, it isn’t only doctors and nurses that face down the invisible killer COVID-19. It’s the men and women who clean the hospital and clinics they work in. Clinical’s Stephen Dark talked to Jessica Rivera, a director of Environmental Services, who gave an intimate, at ti ... Read More
This is 'Clinical'
May 13, 2020Clinical takes you deep into the heart of the institution that is a hospital. Hosts Stephen Dark and Mitch Sears delve into the hidden corners of a hospital, where vital roles are performed by people whose untold, compelling lives and remarkable efforts reveal the human dimension to those we turn to ... Read More
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