Tom was brought in by a friend who wore a distinctly sheepish expression as he manoeuvred the wheel chair along the corridor. The patient had a particularly swollen and painful right foot; even I didn’t need an x-ray to tell me that something was amiss. “This chap ran over my foot” he said by way…
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Filming incidents on mobile phones … Just because you can doesn’t mean you should
I was telling my friends and family about a call I went to recently. It involved a toddler hit by a car with possible life changing or life threatening injuries. My colleagues and I were busy – we had a child screaming with a head injury and the pain of numerous broken bones needing our…
Child Bereavement – and having to deal with everything else
Some people just seem to have the worst luck. I was given a call to a road traffic collision (RTC) and the control room asked me to provide a report for HEMS. The initial calls to 999 must have made it sound very serious if they were considering sending the helicopter out. As I pulled…
Educazione Stradale
Deciding to challenge my Italian language skills beyond their limits and seeing the opportunity for a little jaunt to my favourite country in with the deal, I signed up to attend a presentation on safety on the road in Italy. Those who have passed a holiday in a city in Italy will recall the chaos of…
Bullseyed windscreen – Car vs pedestrian RTC
I was working on a car with my colleague Richard when we were called to a RTC (Road Traffic Collision). It was the rush hour, already dark and it had just started to rain. The traffic was dreadful as we neared the scene and even though the drivers were trying their best to move their…
A day in September
My last shift before my holiday was comprised of a diverse bunch of calls and here are some of them; Firstly there was the 45 yr old lady found dead on her kitchen floor. Not seen for days; found by a neighbour who held a key. The police were on scene too and we suspect…
Off Duty
On my way to work one day I approached a busy junction. I could see that the lights weren’t working so I stopped and pulled on the handbrake. I noticed with horror that a motorcyclist and car approaching the junction from different roads were on a course for collision. As the vehicles impacted, suddenly the…
Who left that signpost there?
Someone had a really lucky escape when they walked away unscathed from this wreck! Incidentally, on my way to this call I was surprised to see Spiderman running along the pavement, closely followed by four Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and three grown men in tu-tus; at this point I remembered that there was a fun…
Force of impact: F = m x a
Cast your mind back a little… do you remember what you learned in physics in school about kinetic energy? This referred to energy forces from “things in motion” and “impact”? We learned that the weight of an object and its speed have a direct impact on the outcome. Realistically if you double the weight of…
Fractured tib/fib
It was a cold and dark evening when the call came in – ‘RTC car vs pedestrian’; luckily I was only a minute away and arrived while the caller was still on the telephone giving details to the ambulance service. At first glance, there was the usual array of bystanders milling about the scene; The…
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