Learning on ScreenMaterials For Safety: Poison Filter
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: New materials are developed for strength, for lightness, for cheapness or to improve industrial processes. But some materials, as we discover this week, are developed purely to increase safety. It’s the job of the liver and kidneys to rid the body of poison. But if they have to deal with too large a dose - a major infection or an overdose of drugs - they can fail, and the patient could lapse into a coma and die. A new emergency filter uses a form of carbon with a special plastic coating. It’s able to remove poison from the bloodstream and bring a patient quickly out of a coma - reducing the risk of permanent injury and death.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/239
- Credits:
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- Cutter
- Allen Bowry
- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Ian Lake
- Cutter
- Laurence Williamson
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
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