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in the heart of Yorkshire our health service is hard at work a be in a dedicated team working around the clock in casualty just waiting for that bed to be ready push push push got ambulance crws all way up back Corridor they’re with us for our most vulnerable moments don’t get upset you’ll get worse God Almighty sorry facing life and death trauma and tears you’ve broken that arm quite badly supporting each other through the toughest shifts they need a medal in there come on I feel like H up a Titanic this is Barnsley casualty 247 I cannot believe that 1 2 3 I’ll get the biscuits out later on I love you I love you on shift tonight just get on weird Advanced nurse practitioner Cheryl Barnes come on don’t get upset you’ll get worse registra Dr Ashley Trimble I’m just going to take some Bloods if that’s all right I’ve got some left you can have I don’t like these sister Jane Hawksworth my faite and nurse Kate Ellis I’m scared so get ready to share a shift with the team at Barnsley casualty forgot got me Teese let’s have a [Music] look a dedicated team of 36 doctors and nurses is starting a new shift at Bary casualty lovely thanks darling hi Abby that’s ready for your lady over 300 patients will come through the doors today and it’s down to Sister Jane to make sure they’re all seen in good time you they need a medal in there come on they actually do hook therapy everybody loves one of my Hooks and you’re very special if you get one okay morning everybody in the casualty Hub sister Jane has just had a Handover from the night shift there’s currently 28 patients in the department one in resource for impedes just two patients waiting to be triaged in the Hub at the minute 17 patients waiting to be seen by the doctor with approximately an hour doctor weight and that’s pretty much it from me at the moment thank you very much patient flow within the Department’s really important if we can’t move the patients out of the department towards or home we become blocked an Abed in recess is about to be needed for a critical case how long will you be think a 59y old woman is struggling to breathe see you thanks byebye the paramedics have brief nurse Cheryl about the patient so three-day history of worsing chest symptoms she’s triod and she’s holding herself like this she’s because her breathing so bad when that red phone rings it gives you a bit of an adrenaline rush I don’t think that’s a bad thing it just makes your mind really switch on to what you’re going to do [Music] what’s this lady’s name Adele Adele I’m Cheryl I’m going to be looking after you okay we’ll start you up you just relax okay I can’t relax you one two three there just sit you up yeah yeah lovely so what’s been happening Adele must be yeah panic attacks yeah well it makes you feel that way doesn’t it yeah yeah yeah okay no problem I’m going to get a full set of observations on you okay yeah when you see somebody with a short of breath there’s a bit of panic there and that can go downhill really quickly that’s quite scary to treat and I still find that a little bit daunting all right we’ve got a lineing haven’t we let’s get some 12 Le let’s get some Bloods just take your time let’s get I’ll do an ABG as well paramedic Michaela hands over on and finishes course tomorrow give her a ventil in because they thought that she might be starting with something yeah but not really any any Lo condition at all you didn’t like to bother us did you I didn’t no well had a bit of a time then you I have love Michela says I should have found earlier you probably should but if you think you’re panicking don’t do you no no all right I’m just going to do a blood gas all right in your wrist nurse Cheryl takes arterial blood to see if Adele’s vital organs are getting enough oxygen we’ll get all this breathing sorted for you for that gra me enough right this is a bit sharpen you is all right all right just keep nice and still for me it’s all right it’s all right you’re doing just get on weird we’ve got it now nice and still well done Adele’s been struggling to breathe for over 9 hours I don’t M nurse Cheryl needs to find out the cause of the problem [Music] quickly in barnesy casualty sister Jane has more patience than beds and not enough nurses yeah I’m to qualified down all day I mean obviously Vicki keeps walking around saying it’s the quality that you’ve got because she’s here and you give such a lot Vic I know but sister Jane has been able to find a bed for a new patient being looked after by nurse Sophia Egan I don’t like hospitals never I used to clean them how did you Margaret thinks she’s got a urine infection right this is Margaret it’s twoy old she started this morning with symptoms of burning sensation on urination she’s needing to go very very frequently she’s managed to serve as a sample in a jam J it’s a marade j man to ser and it’s very dark and very bloody in nature she talks a lot I talk a lot L because I’m on my own so what’s going to me life I’ve got to tell somebody and yeah so so we’ve got the burning sensation we’ve got the the usual sorts of markers are you allergic to anything I in thank you well you you bet Three Men and they’re all dead they might be allergic to you I’m too energetic to energetic T anywh ptical angin then arthritis we’ve got an aneurysm spelius I’ve and we have had previous UT he now no you got running the temperature it’s s than sweet are as well as running the shift sister Jane also takes on patients when nurses are stretched are you on blood thinners yeah I saw I saw so mon nitrate Margaret you’re a eight busy be areen you when we’re doing these Bloods you bet three lots well we’re having a we’re having a fourth oh [ __ ] we’re going to we’re going to sell it on Black Market it must be good it must be good it must be a bit of good Stu let’s have a look what you’re on there your rice is so B for your heart the ten a all for your blood pressure right there all go okay you’ll put some pressure on there a Statin aspirin and a meol for your gastric you get reflux I know what the Bell okay let’s pop all these away come with me up Margaret was rushed into casualty quicker than she expected and I forgot me fing teeth again your teeth let’s have a look oh [Music] yeah so not answer 1 3 6 in the hub sister Jane continues to work on transferring her most poorly patients onto the wards do you yeah do you want to ask her to pull the bed now so that I can get her back off straight away yeah all right thank you bye sister Jane might need to request a bed on intensive care for 59-year-old Adele nurse Cheryl is still struggling to stabilize her breathing in recess can get me another gas needle please it’s really massively important for us to keep calm now inside we might not be calm but on the external we need to be calm what I want you to do now look at me Adele I want you sit it back right it think about that Swan you know looks really elegant on the on the lake swimming very elegantly but underneath the legs are going like lightning and sometimes we’re like that right okay you’re safe now okay and it will be with the breathing yeah yeah all right yeah all right nice and relaxed for me now some nice long breaths all right I know it is I know it is I know sh listen listen yeah just Cal you breathing a bit I know I know paramedic Michaela brought to D we’re not going yet I m I will be in a minute all right a I know it’s much she just had love to stay with your day you’ve got me now I’m oh come on don’t get upset you’ll get worse sometimes when the patients come into resource they’ve already formed that really good bond with that paramedic and so that’s massively important to make sure that the patients aware that they’ve got to go but that you’re there for them now and that you’re going to take over and you’re going to look after them Adele has been given steroids and a nebulizer to try to improve her lung function so you got widespread wheezing across your chest all right that’s Airways so we’re giving you the right things we just need to get the gas that we’ve done and we’ll get you some Bloods off now it’s all right you have to be sorry sweethe Adele’s medical history gives cause for concern I at new when 19 right I that bath yeah we need to make sure you haven’t got that again Adele needs an X-ray on her lungs but she’s too poorly to move oh the machine must come to her we soon be [Music] done in the hub sister Jane’s still struggling to free up cubicles hi it’s Jane it’s really all a big Balancing Act it’s like spinning plates and then running round to the first one again before it falls off will you just tell an that I’m going to have to send that man around in about 15 minutes it can be a really hard job and quite stressful lovely thank you cheers [Music] bye Barnsley casualty has four pediatric cubicles and as usual they’re all full nurse Kate is looking after 2-year-old era so she was downstairs where she was sick when she’d been sick I took her upstairs can I have a look in your eyes era was rushed in by ambulance with a M’s storm because she’s been having fits good girl put this on your arm and squeeze the muscles era’s clothes have been removed to cool her down her fitting might be caused by a high temperature she was being sick and as I was trying to undress her she was just like going floppy and I was rolling back okay and then when did she do the shaking thing that’s all the time A’s blood sugar was very low when she arrived to raise it she was given jelly to eat did it taste nice yeah you say yeah but Mom says no let’s borrow them [Music] toes give them a clean oh dropped it and now we’re ready one two three well [Music] done no it’s got even lower unfortunately low blood sugar can cause seizures and brain damage erors given a glucose injection oh they’ve got a blue BS that little boy saying where is my teddy bear play lead Lindsay Holmes and era’s sister Evan team up to distract [Music] herbes bubbles oh no what’s happened to our bubbles it’s all done you’re so brave [Music] hi oh look what we’ve got and then this one’s yours I’ve not put any jam on I’ve brought it all around so you can decide what flavor you want okay some jam look TI hello brought packet each going add some biscuits good [Music] girl sister James blood sugar is also running low I don’t like I don’t like [Music] these you want a liquorish [Music] there the bubbly ones I’ve just had luckily sister Vicki is coming up for a break hey there’s some money we could go to the shop £345 can’t go to the shop for some Savory stuff get some crisps there6 there I’ll give you some money thanks forget to keep cheer yeah I love a good Ferrero [Music] it’s 1: p.m. and with the waiting room full and Casualty bed scarce sister Jane’s doing everything she can to free up cubicles hey hey a new mess I don’t know I don’t know it’s to Fring press it’s very important to find time to chat to a patients how many times have you been married three I think that that is part and parcel to their feeling better and get him well Margaret came in with a suspected urine infection Junior Dr Sarah Brown has a blood results right then we’re happy that we can get you back home so I’ve prescribed you some antibiotics for your water infection to take when you’re at home okay I went to look what time it is you’ve been here a while that’s why all right let me go and sort those antibiotics out with the infection identified and the antibiotics prescribed Margaret sofh home you’ve had a crack in life you we old men you’ve had look after yourself what are they sending you home with some antibiotics yeah got me a little box you will always click with some people shall I walk you outside come on then I can’t say it’s sad to see them go they come into Hospital they’ve been scared they’ve made you laugh hey love she kept us entertained the been seen treated and they’re on the way home and it’s nice see you [Music] Margaret back in Reus Adele is still struggling to breathe nurse Cheryl has arranged an x-ray to check for pneumonia sh you to breathe in and hold your breath don’t let me laugh breathe in or I’ll tell you don’t worry I’m breathe [Music] normally that’s a ribbon too that looks all right it yeah let’s take this mask off now and see where we’re at nice breathing for me now I know but I’ve been doing that that breathing all night yeah you get into a routine then don’t you yeah yeah there may be no sign of pneumonia but there is an infection which needs treating urgently this is your antibiotic cuz we’ve seen that little bit of infection on the bottom of the right Al with think anyway we have we’ll see what the report says it’s not massive but it’s certainly there that’s it yeah this will help let’s get that back on board cuz she were doing really well all right so that’s the antibiotics in your bloodstream so that’s sorted all love Adele’s daughter Katie has just found out what’s happened here she is she loads better than she was you doing hello on the bottom of your mom’s right lung there’s a little tiny bit of infection there but um that can account for a lot of the the shortness of breath she’s had okay P yes definitely that well there are there is an element of that definitely but your chest was extremely Wheezy and that’s why the salbutamol worked because it helps a wheezing yeah I thought I going to die scary or pass out not back up adel’s son Michael arrives Katie recently got married and she hopes looking at the photos together will help calm her mom that’s not a dress [Music] obviously that’s an acent just Brea sh [Music] so got your Bloods back and they’re not bad at all right so I don’t think it’s a massive infection this good uh but we’ve covered it anyway haven’t we we’re giving you some antibiotics so that’s fine but you’re still requiring oxygen so that brings you into Hospital okay other than that you’re doing fine good so there’s no UNS then no nothing I can see yeah all right yeah so what what will happen to me now then you go to the ward and they’ll watch for a while and try and get you off oxygen and then decide what’s going on then okay on the ward Adele’s breathing improved further she was well enough to go home the next day hey up it’s only me I’ve got one from Reus up to am you love in the hub sister Vicki has returned with some treats things change you bought cheese po [Music] hello I’ve discussed it with Fiona the bed manager who’s discussed it with the guyy sh and they’ve said that she’s all right for gak thank you [Music] bye with cubicles still scarce trainy Advance nurse practitioner Chantel Proctor is alerted to a new arrival an unet Heche can stiffness in his NE let’s have a look but with patients stacked up in the corridors finding them can be difficult when the department is so full trying to find your patient it’s like finding a needle in a hay [Music] stack what name is it ah you’re mine but I need to find a cubicle bear with me all right sometimes you might hear a little voice saying I’m here I’m here so that’s how you find your patient basically that chap on corar F if you’ll get him I’ll can I bring this out yeah 43-year-old Ian has had a bad migraine for 3 weeks just put lights on I me turn down turn down that all right yeah Ian’s girlfriend Colleen persuaded him to come to casualty men don’t seem to come to any that tell me what’s been going up um raing headache hot and cold sugers women women are here all the time but men men do not come to the GP men do not go training did it come on gradual no straight hit me out of nowhere okay and where did you feel it in your head all over all over right okay what were your next symptom uh M my neck real bad stiffness and then hot and cold and for that now I was physically shivering and then I was readed H to touch okay any episode of a memory loss no no no Behavior change just part obviously being very lethargic when he says he’s shivering he is burning hot okay you been sweating as well yes this pain in your head can you describe it it’s SL head in advice and just get to lack of pressure yeah okay so what other past medical history have you got I’ve got menitis I’ve had sepsis three times the latest one was last year last June Ian severe migraine could indicate a recurrence of the menitis or sepsis or be caused by a bleed on the brain look up that’s as much as you get okay and look down is that due to pain or just because it’ll not go no that is due to pain in the stiffness okay that’s fine and if I touch down your neck that hurts it’s painful yeah okay is it painful when I touch your head yeah what does it feel like when I touch your head like you somebody’s pressing really tightly okay at the front here all over okay that’s fine and you sit back for me all right okay I’ve got a feeling you’ll be staying in I’ve got a feeling that all right Ian will have bloods taken to test for menitis and sepsis but first an urgent CT scan is needed to check for a bleed on his brain halfway through the shift at barnesy casualty already over 150 patients have come through the doors okay so um good afternoon sister Jane gathers the team for a briefing all 30 treatment cubicles are full so there’s currently 58 patients in the department with about an hour and a half doctor weight just be mindful that we are a bit short staffed currently really no beds in the hospital we’re really struggling surgically wise and medicine is very tight so if you do have a patient that you’re referring if you just refer them as soon as you can thank you okay she’ll just have to wait 2 minutes because my nurses are up transferring our patients out as well so bear with me I’ll thankfully a beding resource has just come free because her patient is being rushed in with a horrific ankle fracture 884 yearold Terry fell in his kitchen and his wife Lydia called 999 so what happens Dr Trimble will be treating him I you started to move away from the sink mhm B my left foot he just gave away wasn’t like you slipped than anything I just went down and heard the crack okay I’m just going to have a t with my boss and we’ll get this so it looks a bit better all right yep won’t be long consultant Dr Dave Walker and Dr Trimble need to straighten then set the bone get here on the foot turn it the yeah in a minute we’re going to straighten this I’ll not like you it will hurt a bit see if you take that that will help great feel [Music] it’s just going to hold it it’s very floppy straighten it now yeah it’s quite it’s just quite unstable oh yeah every every time slight movement it’s just clicking we need to put a plas on cuz it won’t stay like that if we let go sister Vicky breaks some bad news to Terry we might have to cut your juggers off Chef your Wednesday ones as well I know are you okay for me to go tomor to get a new I think you deserve a new period after this Ashley I’ll buy you some Terry’s ankle is tightly secured with bandages and a temporary cast while doctors investigate whether he needs surgery you okay that’s as bad as it gets well done okay Terence what did you used to do as a job musition musition over the world pled for Ang home oh yeah year mons field the filmster lydian and Terry have been married nearly 40 years and traveled the world together the call myestro no my how do you say it mro [Music] mro Dr Trimble orders an x-ray to find out the severity of Terry’s fracture he may require an operation to fix his ankle in place it’s 300 p.m. and with the waiting room full sister Jane still doesn’t have any free cubicles my other lady what other lady I’ve got two ladies in there one of them can come out and I’ll set the other one where do she need again am you’re my favorite I’m [Music] over in the Pediatric area Junior Dr John Shepard investigates the cause of 2-year-old era’s low blood sugar diabetes does run in my family okay who I diabetes um my grand was a diabetic then my mom passed away two years ago from a diabetic coma sounds like you think of along the not diabetes is what we need to think about type one diabetes is what I would think someone this age but I think your grandparents would have known about that from a slightly earlier age with us being in South Africa you don’t have an NH health system so unless you have private Medical Aid people generally don’t go to the doctors so they can live with stuff like that for years without it being diagnosed you need to have the pediatricians have a proper look at over the next day or so be admitted yeah certainly for today and we’ll see what the blood tests that we’ve taken show upstairs and see if they point us in anything that um we need to do anything about in the short term and we’ll also have a look at things like diabetes and other um sort of metabolic problems that people can have fabulous let me go make some phone calls and we’ll get you taken upstairs right guys nice to meet you see you thanks very much thank [Music] you Nurse Kate is taking another blood sample to see if er’s blood sugar has improved can I Bor your finger and we’re going to do that stamp stamp stamp now we ready all done clever girl you are bleeding let’s clean it up fantastic magic that’s it oh G era’s blood sugars are now five times what they were earlier lovely it’s gone up yeah it’s much better now you want a plaster you don’t need a F this is a little fighter ew it could be a virus that caused the vomiting and then the vomiting that caused the low blood sugar and the low blood sugar that caused the shaking I [Music] jump while they wait for a bed play leader Lindsay keeps the girls occupied are you getting me does that mean you’re feeling a lot better yeah you look a lot better we’re going to go upstairs now we’re going to go up to a different [Music] place on the ward A’s blood sugars continued to improve diabetes was ruled out and she was soon well enough to go home oh thank you very much in the hub nurse Kelly Stones is showing off her new baby for the first [Music] time but you are 83 but she seven now yeah let us see her air let’s just her let’s just disturb you just put [Music] out in one of the cubicles Ian who’s had a bad migraine for 3 weeks has just returned from his CT scan while he and his girlfriend khen wait for the results nurse Chantel checks the images it looks like a menitis oh I believe I aitis Ian’s blood tests also indicate he has menitis but the good news is it appears to be viral rather than bacterial menitis which is more dangerous once you’ve got all the information in front of you you’re a little bit of a detective you’ve got the patient’s history you’ve got their examination and the blood test results and you put that all together to come up with the diagnosis we’re thinking you probably got a viral manager again all right but obviously we can’t rule out a bleed the CT scans come back okay but we can’t rule it out I’m going to give you some pain relief some morphine I’ve got an anti sickness I’m going to prescribe it it’s an antiviral medication as well okay just to protect you are you happy with that plan okay I’m going now see you later good luck okay you’re all right after a course of powerful antibiotics Ian made a full recovery he was discharged 6 days later how we doing with the beds because sister Jane struggling to get poorly patients transferred towards waiting times in casualty are increasing right I’ve got a lady who needs a bed because she’s had morphine Tramadol and paracetamol for her ABDO pain so obviously I put her to sa but there’s no beds on sa I thought if I could get rid of one right okay I’ll keep them all right darling all right then Che bye right in recess 84y old teres badley broken ankle has been straightened and the plaster has set but Terry and his wife Lydia are going to be here quite some time yet it’s going to take some Bloods if that’s all right oh I’ve got some left you can Dr trimbles coordinating his care met my wife in a night sure she was the waitress we a b here in barnley oh yeah it were a good night club here called the barbar club when I went in for me break I knew that she liked me because when I had a cheese sandwich she always gave me to pickle onion You’ been married 40 years oh next year are you going to do something nice for your 40th then if you got some PL might go for a dance a like to have a dance with my dear wife yeah Terry’s Dancing Days might be over well go around for x-ray okay you to the orthopedic doctor about you as well when an ankle breaks this badly the knee can fracture too find any patience again casualty is at full capacity a nurse Chantel needs a cubicle for her latest patient I’m just trying to find a trolley in a room finding a cubicle oh my it’s a nightmare room you feel so so ruled asking someone to come out but you can’t examine someone in the corridor it’s a nightmare now she needs to get her patient into the room before someone else naaps it are you in pain is that why people do have different pain thresholds I don’t have one at all I am the biggest wuss when it comes to pain 58-year-old dawn has been in agony for over an hour she severely injured her bik while bending over to pick up one of her baby granddaughter’s bottles [Music] that’s it shuffle you bom Well Done Right so start from the beginning what brings you here today just bent over and it just went and I ended up on the floor and I haven’t been able to hardly move since then any pains going down into your legs yes both sides both sides into two bottom where does the pain go down mostly into my hip this one’s worse okay on your left hand side on your left hand side yeah it’s down to about here okay right your this leg lift it up for me you’re Jing come on is it du at pain or that you just can’t do it I can’t lift it up is it a weakness or is it due to the pain it’s both both okay this one would you have been able to do that before this has happened yeah right lift it up and hold it there feel I got can you not hold it there at all do you get pain in your back yeah okay and the same with this one that’s worse you can’t hold it there right okay can I take these slippers off yes sure thank you might be a bit stinky I smell worse I bet bet yeah right lift this leg up for me okay I want you to push against my hand push push push no no need to try and rule out something called cord finer it’s a compression of your nerve rout it is an emergency if you have it and then we have to deal with it then but we need to rule it out we can’t rule it out without an MRI and you don’t want to damage your nerves to you compression of the spinal cord can lead to paralysis if Dawn’s MRI indicates there is a problem she’ll be rushed into [Music] theater I can’t Che him yet because I need his in Barnsley casualty’s cubicles a jam packed so sister Jane is trying to transfer the most critical patients up to the Ws Joe we have no beds surgical wise in the whole hospital and I’ve got four to seven patients in the department at the minute good no one of Jan’s patients who might need a surgical bed is 58-year-old Dawn she’s about to have an MRI scan on her painful back you want us to help you just let us know what you want us to do I’m down shoulders just this way a little bit doctors are concerned the nerves in dor spinal cord are being [Music] compressed so whole thing should take about 15 minutes if you more room one side than the other have a shuffle and find it all nearly there if the images show daor spinal cord is in danger she will need emergency surgery in reource Dr Trimble is waiting for her 84 year-old patient Terry to come back from having his badly broken ankle x-ray I was stood at the sking sink and I turned to go away from it and me left anle giveway oh de and I went down and heard a snap and simple as that oh that’s your re right there oh my God can see the big crack down here a big split through there as well that was the bit that was poking out the skin then another bone which is your fibula that’s fractured as well so two fractures yeah two fractures it’s obviously from The Joint line you can see it’s very unstable Dr Trimble calls in junior Dr Nick synony from Orthopedics hi sir how you doing very nice to meet you how you my name’s Nick so you got something called an open fracture I’m going to speak to my boss but potentially you might have to go over to Sheffield all right they’ll probably better equipped to deal with it than we are okay all right there is Sheffield is 23 mil away you okay sure she’s not no everything’s going to be okay all right too strange I think can’t if you need to get over they’ll let you get in Ambulance with them and transfer to cross over with them and if you’ve got family then they can f you back okay don’t worry about okay all right then so I spoke to the orthopedic at the other end of the phone consultant Dr John Raina has spoken to a colleague in Sheffield she’s Keen to see you tonight um and if you need an operation she’d like you to have that in the morning so what we’re going to do is move you to AR award CDU when they ring us to say that you’ve got a bed over there we’ll send you over in an ambulance thank you B at the hospital that’s right no problem thank you very much okay don’t know when you’ll be going waiting for transport that’s just been booked okay up to 4 hours all right lydo was able to go in the ambulance with Terry to Sheffield he did need surgery the next day it went well and he’s now recovering at home over in Pediatrics I’m going to put them in hour they got bed nurse Kate helps play leader Lindsay tidy up at least we’ve still got Donald and Daisy together Mickey feels like he’s lost his other half am I pop in this go do it I didn’t do it no I didn’t [Music] n n oh that was quite [Music] scary Dawn is about to get the results of the MRI scan on her bike from consultant Dr CLA Guinness so your MRI has been looked at by the Specialists there’s a bit of dis bulging which is where the soft tissue in between the bones of your spine the uh the dis there is bulging a little bit at all the levels down in your lower back but not so much that it’s causing you Mischief with the nerve down the middle of your spine so that’s good news um you don’t have the dangerous type of squeezing on your spinal cord that we were worried about just glad it’s not majorly dangerous cuz these operations are not good are they on backs well it depends you know some people need them and if it saves you a lot of trouble down the line then it’s worth it but you’re right it’s it’s a big deal to have surgery on your back absolutely do yeah all right d okay thank you all right Dawn’s back pain slowly improved after a two night stay she was able to walk out of [Music] Hospital the shift draws to a close and sister Jane and sister Vicky have transferred all the critical patients to the Ws he’s gone just waiting for him to pull bed for that one that one’s going home waiting for bed to be pulled for that one that one’s gone as well I just needs to C and then we’re on top of it they freed up most of the casualty cubicles so the night shift can get off to a smooth start we work together and we cry together and that’s the nature of the job and if that involves a cuddle then that’s how it is I love you I love you [Music]
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Tyvm.
How many beds and rooms do they have there? It sounds like it's not a very big hospital 25:15
Does Ian have a health condition? He seems so young to be having such health issues 33:58
It amazes me that people use the ambulance service for things like a UTI. Are there no doctors there that have office appointments? It seems to me they would save the stress put on the ambulance service and hospitals if patients were able to go see their doctors instead of the hospital for common illnesses.
I wish I get a help to study nursing
My MIL would call an ambulance for an “UTI” every couple weeks for any ailments . She preferred to be in an ER not to be alone
I agree. UTI, go to the doctor. 😢. But she’s elderly and live alone so I give her that, understanding.
UTI’s in elderly women can go south quickly. They can develop urosepsis which can be devastating
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My mom passed away from a UTI
I just learned something. Thank you 🎉
Low blood sugar can cause seizures.
I have had as a child and likewise my grandfather. He died from a seizure 32:49 attack. My grandchildren did show signs.
They need an instacare area for some of these cases. They are filling their precious A and E beds with people that need oral antibiotics, stitches, band-aids, etc.
This guy says he has sepsis a few times. You’re lucky to live through it the first time but he has it three times doubtful.
This guy says he has sepsis a few times. You’re lucky to live through it the first time but he has it three times doubtful.
He should keep taking that antiviral medicine, his whole life, one pill, or even a couple a week and you’ll never get another cold as long as you live, or anything, viral like colds, and things
Visit to GP for UTI involves sending urine for testing delaying treatment. Plus, the elderly living by themselves may not be able to get to medical care by themselves. Don’t be so critical – you may be in the same situation some day!
Awesome episode. Have a great day my friend ❤️🙂⚘️🏥.
Dawn was SOOOO lucky! In 2008 I had herniated two discs in my lower back and my left Sciatic nerve was caught between them and being shredded by the bone shards from the destroyed discs. I went to the hospital 6 times in absolute agony and kept being sent home. It took 2 WEEKS for the bloody doctors to figure out what was wrong with me. I had to be removed from my third floor bedroom by 6 men while I was strapped onto a stretcher, screaming in the worst pain I've ever felt in my life. I screamed for over an hour straight before they finally knocked me out. By that time my left leg was paralyzed and I no longer had control of my bowel and bladder and I'd been through multiple extremely painful tests with no results. That night a doctor who had been off for 6 months was in the ER. HE diagnosed me because he had been off for 6 months from the exact same injury I had!! I went in for emergency surgery that night. It stopped the worst of the pain so I was no longer screaming in agony all the time but 15 years later my left foot is dead and my left leg has severe nerve damage that causes the nerves to fire wildly with no warning. I am in pain every day. I have developed Fibromyalgia, PTSD, Cyclic-Vomiting-Syndrome, and migraines among other things because I wasn't diagnosed in time. When this all started, hospitals all thought I was simply drug seeking so they did NOTHING to help me. I didn't want drugs!! I wanted the pain to stop and those are not the same things!! When I was able to see my GP he offered me pain killers repeatedly and I kept saying no!! I did not want to become an Opioid statistic, I just wanted to be a functioning human again. Welcome to Canada. The medical care is free but it's going to cost you sooo much in other ways!
So glad to see a new episode
I once went to our family dr as I knew I had a bladder infection but he insisted first to do a urine test before antibiotics, the next day I had spasms and could not pee at all, it was more painful than my three natural child births, I had to rush to the ER in tears and the traiage nurse didn’t your dr give you anything I said no… I was bleeding blood then and sure enough I had a massive kidney infection … put on strong antibiotics and pain relief .. My family dr apologize afterwards … Worse experience ever and yes I had to go to the ER
It is very important to get antibiotics right away with UTI, in the elderly it can cause confusion bc they don't always have symptoms' of pain. Then it becomes very serious, very fast.
Medical care is so different between the US and Britain. I'm American, but I've lived in England. I actually had to go to an emergency room while I was living there and they were so kind to me. I have a lot of respect for them.
Why would they give antibiotics for viral meningitis? Antibiotics do nothings for viruses. Doesn’t sound right to me.
My Mom would get UTIs in her late 80s and have vivid hallucinations. She went in an ambulance which was insisted on by the Fire Chief (paramedic boss here)