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Filmed simultaneously with ambulance crews across the West Midlands, this series shows in real time the range of cases paramedics attend to.
Paramedics are called out to a man who's locked out of his house and has tried to climb over a metal garden fence, but has slipped and severed his finger. The ambulance crews also help a teenager who has epilepsy and is having a seizure, they become increasingly concerned as her seizures become more frequent.
A paramedic crew and air ambulance are sent to help a woman who has fallen over while playing golf, she has torn the skin from her leg causing a large gaping wound. Paramedics also treat a lollipop lady who's experiencing crushing chest pains and a woman who's been sick for 48 hours with low blood sugar levels.
On the way to a job, paramedics come across a road traffic accident, where two cars have collided and a woman is in distress sitting in the middle of the road.A baby who's struggling to breathe is found to have an irregular heartbeat. And paramedics are called to a track-side suicide.
A driver has collided with another car outside a school, and there is concern that he may be bleeding internally. Chemotherapy takes a toll on a patient who can't stop being sick. A man has severe blood loss and needs to go to hospital, while a five-month-old baby is struggling to breathe.
Paramedics are called out to a woman who has fallen and may have broken her hip. It's only a few weeks since her last fall, when she dislocated her hip. A young man with a family history of heart attacks calls for help when he experiences sudden chest pain. A seven-year-old boy can't stop being sick. A woman passes out in her bathroom and gets a deep gash in the top of her head. And a man who's had one too many beers face-plants the pavement.
A postal worker slips on sewage and may have broken his hip, he's lying on the ground and can't move. Paramedics are sent to a possible cardiac arrest and find their patient in a bin. Medics also treat a woman who's in excruciating pain with kidney stones, an elderly man with a urine infection and a three-month-old baby who is having trouble breathing.
Paramedics treat a gardener who's slipped off a wall, an intoxicated man who's collapsed in a car park and a woman with advanced cancer who's losing blood.
Paramedics help a man who has suddenly collapsed while chatting to his neighbours over the garden fence and the ambulance has to make an emergency stop on the way to hospital when the patient starts choking. An afternoon tea of clotted cream and jam turns sour when a wasp stings a man on the lip, causing an anaphylactic reaction. Plus, a homeless man is reported to be in cardiac arrest.
Compilation edition, featuring road traffic collisions. A pick-up truck is wedged up a tree and the driver is still inside. With the help of the fire service, the paramedics need to treat the man and get him to hospital. When a motorcyclist collides with a deer, the man ends up spreadeagled on the road. Worried that he may have damaged his spine, the paramedics need to keep his head still, to prevent further injury.
Bringing together some of the most memorable and captivating stories from the paramedics' case book. When a trauma case is the result of a stabbing, the paramedics must think about their own safety as well as treating the patient. In the early hours, paramedics are called out to a man who's been stabbed outside a block of flats. At a different address a man is stabbed in the head and chest.
A selection of memorable A&E stories, featuring a woman who tripped and put her head through a glass door, a gardener who accidentally head-butted a wall and a young cyclist who fell off after hitting a pothole, leaving paramedics suspecting he had broken his kneecap. Plus, the woman who broke her leg but waited 24 hours before calling for help and man who suffered an allergic reaction to the poison ivy in his garden.
Compilation episode, highlighting the need for paramedics to be ready for anything. A team responds to a call about a hotel guest behaving erratically. The patient claims she can hear her children outside and suddenly runs across a busy road. Plus, a young schoolboy is about to have a PE lesson when he has a seizure.
Special episode, demonstrating how paramedics handle their patient's pain. A woman who has diabetes is found by her son collapsed on the floor. The EMTs suspect she's had a hypo and need to get glucose into her blood stream. With no access to a vein, they take drastic action by drilling directly into her leg. The paramedics also treat a midwife, who has a painful bowel obstruction.
This compilation episode takes a look at some of the injuries that the UK's elderly population have suffered from, such as a man who's fallen while collecting his morning paper and has badly hit his head. Paramedics also treat a man who has collapsed at home with dangerously high blood sugar levels, as well as a woman who's fallen over while out shopping and may have broken her leg.
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