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…
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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…
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Tags: 999, Cardiac Arrest, CPR, dignity, Do Not Resuscitate (DNR), expectations of the ambulance service, illness, Paramedic, television and the media, terminal illness, wider NHS -
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