Coronation Street Blog: sepsis

Thursday, 23 August 2018

Corrie sepsis storyline saves baby's life

Coronation Street's sepsis story has helped to save a baby's life.

Aoife Duffy told Belfast Live that she discovered that her four-month-old was in serious discomfort, she made a GP appointment – but after remembering the Jack Webster storyline in Corrie where he is diagnosed with sepsis, she decided to rush her baby to an emergency department instead.

"We made a GP appointment, but I Googled her symptoms and remembered on Coronation Street when the symptoms weren't picked up by the GP several times, so I didn't want to take any chances. They saw us straight away and took a sample of her urine which showed signs of infection. Quite early on the doctor could see that sepsis was developing. They feared meningitis and had to test for it."

Her daughter was eventually diagnosed with sepsis, but the doctor soon got everything under control. Aoife's daughter is now in good health.

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Sunday, 29 July 2018

Corrie reveals how they filmed Jack's leg in sepsis storyline

ITV Coronation Street have revealed a behind-the-scenes special effects secret. It certainly had me wondering about it when I saw it on Friday night's Corrie.

If, like me, you too were wondering how Jack's sepsis storyline was playing out with young actor Kyran Bowes, who plays Jack, then have a look here.

You can watch the scene in this short video, below:

In case you were wondering how it was done. Time to big up 👏👏our amazing post-production team here at Coronation Street.

Here's their fantastic vfx work on little Jack's sepsis storyline. #Corrie pic.twitter.com/3leOHiouAC
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