This program presents a case of a thirty year old man with Marfan's syndrome to illustrate the surgical procedure for correcting a dissecting aneurysm of the ascending aorta with aortic valvular insufficiency. The patient's preoperative physical findings and aortograms which indicate the need for this surgery are presented. In this instance the entire ascending portion of the aorta is involved. The transverse and descending aorta are not considered unusual.

Oriented toward the practitioner and the student, this program discusses the etiology, diagnosis, clinical courses, and management of multiple sclerosis. The program achieves its objective primarily through the use of five case studies of individuals with multiple sclerosis to show the clinical course and symptoms associated with the disorder. Three of the case studies, a twenty-three-year-old female, and a forty-three and forty-one-year-old male, represent an episodic disseminated type of multiple sclerosis.

This film presents the basic principles of first aid, the circulatory system, improvised tourniquets, use of bandages, treatment of shock, burns, artificial respiration, and splints. Produced by the United States Public Health Service;.

Focusing on Bogotá, Colombia as a case study, this film discusses reasons for rural-to-urban migration, and the consequences of that population shift. Homes and land are scarcer, and rural farming skills don't suit urban factory jobs. Large families aren't the asset they might be in other settings. The film profiles a successful "community-based distribution" (CBD) program sponsored by Profamilia, which assures easy access to contraceptives, providing an alternative to a large family that may not be the best choice for all households.

This silent, animated educational film introduces the relationship between sexual intercourse and conception. Animated drawings illustrate how conception occurs and the manner in which various birth control devices, surgical methods, and the contraceptive pill function. The film is without spoken commentary and is designed to be used by professional personnel. An instruction guide was produced for use with the film but is not held in the NLM collection.

The necessity of family planning and population control in India are presented. Children suffer in families that cannot fully support them, and the country as a whole cannot achieve prosperity when jobs, food supplies, medical care, and housing are not plentiful enough for a large and rapidly growing population. The film urges planned parenthood as one element of the solution to healthier children and a healthier nation.

This film profiles a Homemaker Service that provides assistance to families and individuals in their own homes. The camera follows one homemaker as she cares for the families assigned to her. She is shown as she shops, prepares meals, and does light housework for an elderly couple who would otherwise be unable to live on their own. The homemaker works under the supervision of a public health nurse. When a Puerto Rican mother of six is injured, the homemaker looks after the children and helps with the housework as the mother recuperates.

This film describes and documents examples of family planning and voluntary sterilization programs in Bangladesh, El Salvador, the Philippines, Thailand, and the U.S.A. The opening sequence shows doctors and nurses preparing an operating room and instruments. Dr. Malcolm Potts introduces the topic, noting that in his experience in more than 50 countries, people are interested in these options once they have the number of children they want, even when local leaders believe they will not be.

Narrated by a doctor originally from Cuba who has come to work in public health in the state of Kentucky, this presentation focuses on staff and clinics associated with a family planning program established by the Kentucky Bureau for Health Services. The program serves men and women living in isolated and poverty-prone areas of the state. The program affirms the right of women to make decisions about their fertility and is based on the principle that every patient and person is deserving of concern, respect, and a genuine interest in his or her problem. The life and career of Dr.

This film documents the daily routine of a normal, healthy infant in a white middle-class household in pre-World War II America. The baby's routine, almost hour-by-hour, is shown--feeding, napping, outdoor time, the process of sterilization of formula, dinner, and the short time he sees his father at the end of the day. In depicting the baby's routine, the film also illustrates the daily responsibilities of the mother--housekeeping, laundry, food preparation, and the like. Produced by New York State Department of Health.

This film shows an operation performed on a woman pregnant with triplets at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in Los Angeles, California. One of the fetuses has died prior to birth. Doctors are shown scrubbing in preparation for surgery, then performing a laparotomy for delivery. Afterwards, the procedure for restoring the patient’s abdomen is shown. The stillborn fetus is examined, and a diagnosis is made of an interstitio-isthmal pregnancy.

This is an unique and historically valuable film depicting the important medical aid that the Frontier Nursing Service provided in the Appalachian region of Kentucky. The Service provided child hygiene, midwifery, sick nursing, medical care, dentistry, public health, and emergency surgery for poor, mountain people. Film shows patients' and nurses' cabins, children, town, and gives flavor of their lives, language, and problems.

Celso-Ramon Garcia, M.D., moderator, Sheldon Segal, M.D., pro oral contraceptives, and Louis Lasagna, M.D., cautious on oral contraceptives, discuss this therapy in a round-table, studio setting. Two discussants and a moderator present positive and negative views on the use of oral contraceptives. In their favor, one out of every three American women of childbearing age is using them with apparently very little risk. They are easy, convenient, and contribute to the overall health of the woman. Unabated population growth is slowed. Metabolic changes cease when the drug is stopped.

[This film has been edited from its full length of 69 minutes] This film teaches the method of laparotrachelotomy or low cervical cesarean section. At the beginning of the film the instructor lectures and demonstrates the method through the use of diagrams. An actual laparotrachelotomy is performed at the end of the film. Filmed at the Chicago Lying-In Hospital.

This military training film outlines for the Navy enlisted woman the routines she must establish and the habits she must acquire to remain in the best physical condition for performing her assigned duties.