For most of us sleep is a welcome visitor at the end of a long day. But for people with narcolepsy, sleep is a thief – robbing them of years of their lives.
Justine is a student whose sleep attacks are so severe that she almost died when she collapsed into her dinner. Hotel receptionist, Sharon, finds her attacks can be brought on by any strong emotion. Cher suffered chronic sleep attacks and terrifying narcolepsy-related nightmares for twenty-one years before finally making a self-diagnosis and finding a way to live with her condition.
Documenting the experiences of these three women as they go about their daily lives, A Sleepy Life shows how everyday activities such as driving, bathing and eating, can become life-threatening events, and how these women and their families, cope with the battle to stay awake.
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Running time: 1 x 60 minute documentary
Year of production: 2006
Produced by: The TV Set
Super Surgeries focuses on the medical centres and surgical procedures on the new frontier of medical science. Forged by operating robots, baby-saving fighter pilot technology and silicon chip based bionic eyes – this is a world where knives have been replaced by cyber instruments and paraplegics have the chance to walk again. Episodes include: Cyberknife, Pre-Natal Surgery, Robotic Surgery, Spine, Surgery Of The Senses and Virtual Reality.
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Running Time : 6 x 60 min
Year Of Production : 2000
Produced By : Beyond Productions Pty Ltd & Screaming Flea Productions
There’s nothing like the anticipation of a newborn. For most families it’s a time when life starts anew with optimism and hope but for some parents birth will bring something else. In the deep confines of the womb their babies are safe but from the moment of birth they will become a medical emergency and without surgery they will not survive. The program follows the journeys of three babies, their extraordinary surgeries and the emotional roller coasters their parents must ride.
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Running time: 1 x 60 min
Year of Production: 2004
Produced By: Beyond Productions
Foetal surgery is performed by only a handful of Medical Centres in the western world. Each of these provides prenatal evaluation and diagnostic treatment, including invasive foetal surgery and open foetal surgery. The conditions presented are usually life threatening for the unborn. But in each case there are two patients – the foetus and the mother. It’s the mothers who put their health on the line for their unborn babies. In Surgery for the Unborn, we go inside Foetal Surgery Units and explore the drama surrounding technology supporting this extraordinary work.
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Running Time: 1 Hour
Year of Production: 2001
Produced by: Beyond Productions
Survivors and their families share their physical and emotional journeys and celebrate the medical teams and science that helped them through. How did one man live through the plane crash that killed his co-pilot? Why did a hunter injured and alone in the bush not succumb to hypothermia? This compelling new series celebrates the wonders and mysteries of the human body - and the power of the human mind in its will to survive.
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Running Time: 10 x half hour
Year of Production: 2005
Produced By: Top Shelf Productions
