Fast Response Unit full moon: chapter 2, part 1
12 July 2017
My return to frontline emergency ambulance placement has been met with blood, flesh, bones, tears, torn clothes and distraught relatives. Read more…
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12 July 2017
My return to frontline emergency ambulance placement has been met with blood, flesh, bones, tears, torn clothes and distraught relatives. Read more…
5 May 2017
My hospital placement has commenced with the first of five weeks on an intensive care unit (ICU). It has been truly eye opening. Read more…
7 April 2017
Alex takes part in a massive exercise for the emergency services, to train for responding to a mass casualty incident on a catastrophic scale. Read more…
23 December 2016
Alex paints a picture of his last week on placement block one for the second year of the BSc Paramedic Science degree. Read more…
24 November 2016
Working a busy night shift with his paramedic mentor and her emergency ambulance crewmate, Alex gets to cannulate two patients. Read more…
18 November 2016
Alex talks about practising the advanced clinical skills paramedics are able to do, and the case study he is writing about a patient with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. Read more…
12 July 2016
Alex describes a call on his final week of first year placement - to a baby that might have suffered a cardiac arrest. Read more…
5 July 2016
Alex describes the exhausting recent shifts his ambulance has attended, with an abusive hypoglycaemic patient and a stab wound victim. Read more…
27 June 2016
Alex shares his "big sick" calls from this week, including a stabbing and someone fallen from a building in a construction site. Read more…
20 June 2016
Alex's ambulance crew gets rescued by the fire brigade and they attend an attempted suicide/murder. Read more…
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