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Discovery: Life Changers - Kathryn Maitland

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Kevin Fong and Kathryn Maitland

31/08/2015 GMT

Life Changers - Kathryn Maitland

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Kathryn Maitland has a burning passion to transform clinical research across Africa.

Kathryn Maitland's work has changed medical practice in many parts of the world and saved thousands of lives, even though it nearly cost her career.

Kathryn Maitland is a doctor with a burning passion to transform clinical research across Africa, where she has spent most of her career.  Determined to improve the outcomes for critically sick children in hospital, she spent over a decade of her life raising funds for and then carrying out, the first ever scientific trial for fluid bolus resuscitation in children with shock.  Fluid replacement is a pillar of medicine but the evidence base for this particular issue is weak, even though it is standard practice for hospitals in high-income countries. The results were totally unexpected, creating a shockwave in the medical community that is yet to settle down.  Kathryn believes the results could save tens of thousands of lives every year in Africa alone yet the experience very nearly ended her research career.  She tells her life-changing story to Kevin Fong, himself a critical care doctor, who wonders if his own current practice of treating sick children should now change.

(Image:  presenter Kevin Fong with Kathryn Maitland)

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