An amateur film made by Maurice Clyde featuring two different types of kidney dialysis taking place at two Newcastle hospitals. Filmed at both the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Ryehill Hospital, both the coil and Kiil system of dialysis are in use on patients. The film also features Professor David Kerr, a world pioneer in kidney dialysis. Title: The Artificial Kidney The film opens with a shot of an artificial kidney machine with dialyser and blood pump. This is followed by a series of...

An amateur film made by Maurice Clyde featuring two different types of kidney dialysis taking place at two Newcastle hospitals. Filmed at both the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Ryehill Hospital, both the coil and Kiil system of dialysis are in use on patients. The film also features Professor David Kerr, a world pioneer in kidney dialysis. Title: The Artificial Kidney The film opens with a shot of an artificial kidney machine with dialyser and blood pump. This is followed by a series of drawings showing how the machine works. A sign on a building reads 'The United Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Hospitals Royal Victoria Infirmary'. Exterior views of the hospital follow. Iinside the hospital, staff walk by in the corridors. On a dialysis ward, patients receive treatment in a number of cubicles. A man sits up in a hospital bed, a woman by his side and a nurse at the head of the bed. The nurse checks an IV drip. A doctor in gown and facemask prepares a coil kidney machine for a patient. Another member of staff prepares a finger pump in a side room. A man sits up in bed with tubes in his leg, which are attached to a working dialysis machine. A view of a ward follows in which a number of patients are hooked up to machines, nurses and hospital staff monitoring them. A nurse injects Heparin into a tube to prevent the blood clotting of a female patient. At the end of a dialysis session a member of staff removes the coil from the machine and unwinds the cellophane membrane before hanging it from a stand. The two blood chambers are squeezed back into the patient by a doctor. Once this is complete, the Venus clamps are removed from the patient and the wound dressed. In the 'Artificial Kidney Laboratory' the senior biochemist and her staff work at benches checking patients’ blood and urine measurements. A general exterior view follows of Ryehill Hospital in Newcastle. Inside, a man removes sheets of cellophane membrane from a vat and lays them out on a table to form a different type of dialysis for terminal patients known as the Kiil system. A large metal tank is filled with dialysis fluid with the kiil clamped above it. On a hospital ward, patients lay on their beds while receiving dialysis treatment. Some are watching television. A nurse looks up and adjusts the blood circuit machine above one of the beds. She then adjusts the dialysis machine and checks on the patients. The film ends with a male patient changing back into his clothes and driving from the hospital by car. Title: The End.