This month I had the pleasure of taking part in the Croydon Junior Citizens Scheme. This is a multi-agency project involves the London Fire Brigade, Police, Transport for London and the London Ambulance Service amongst others. The children are taken through a range of practical scenarios that highlight possibly hazardous situations that the student may…
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Do Not Resuscitate
Anyone who has worked for the ambulance service for even the shortest period of time will have experienced the following situation. Someone with a serious medical condition unexpectedly deteriorates and a panicked family call 999 to summon ambulance staff to resuscitate their loved one. Recently I had one such call. An elderly lady had been…
Car versus Tree
The funny thing about our job is you can be having a really ordinary day when suddenly it all changes in an instant. One rainy afternoon recently I was given a call to a ‘Road Traffic collision, car versus tree’ – no more detail than that. As I started to drive the mile or so…
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