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Paramedics treat a woman whose defibrillator inside her chest has delivered an electric shock to her heart, and a man who's had bowel surgery who thinks he may have an infection
Paramedics treat a woman with a possible bleed on the brain, a baby whose heart is beating extremely fast, a man showing signs of a stroke, and a woman who may have sepsis
A call comes in from the police saying a young man has collapsed outside a nightclub and isn't breathing. It's a category one emergency - the highest priority - meaning there's an immediate threat to life. A young woman is having a sickle cell crisis. This genetic condition makes her normally round blood cells form a sickle shape, sticking together and causing excruciating pain. A woman has the highest blood pressure that one of the paramedics has ever seen, and she needs to go to hospital urgently. A former soldier collapses and is trapped behind a door, and a woman has crippling chest pains. Her condition is a medical mystery that can only be solved with a trip to A&E.
On a Thursday day shift, a young man has come off his motorbike and slid along the road while not wearing any protective clothing. A young boy is complaining of chest pains; there's a family history of heart problems and his mum is worried about him. On the same shift, a man with only one leg has suspected deep vein thrombosis and needs to be treated in hospital. Paramedics arrive at an address to find a doctor in hospital scrubs holding a baby. It's a father and son and the baby has a worrying cough while a woman is complaining of severe abdominal pain.
On a Friday night, the paramedics are called out to a man who has reportedly collapsed in the street and isn't breathing. Paramedics also treat a man lying unconscious in an alleyway surrounded by needles who's taken a drug overdose but refuses to go to hospital, and a four-year-old who has a high temperature and a nasty cough. On the same shift, a man is struggling to breathe with an abnormal heart rhythm and a woman has fallen and can't get up. The paramedics need to make sure she hasn't broken any bones.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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 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.
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.
Calls to the ambulance service reach new heights in the early hours of Saturday morning as the clubs start to empty. A young woman is found intoxicated by the side of the road and an amateur boxer has vomited in his sleep and is difficult to rouse after losing a fight. Paramedics are called for a woman who has gone into premature labour at 32 weeks.
A call comes in from a GP surgery for a child suffering a severe asthma attack and paramedics are called out to a young woman with multiple sclerosis who is in considerable pain. A man with advanced bowel cancer who is struggling to breathe is seen to by a district nurse so as to avoid a visit to A&E. Plus, a patient is having their 10th nose bleed in 11 days.
Police find a man lying unconscious in the street following a suspected drug overdose. When a man is found collapsed outside his house clutching his chest, the paramedics need to act quickly as he may be having a heart attack. A category one call - the highest priority - comes through for a woman collapsed on her bathroom floor and an elderly woman climbs on a chair to reach a daddy long-legs, with painful consequences.
Paramedics are called out to a young woman who has had a seizure on a bus. She has epilepsy but the frequency of her seizures has increased dramatically in recent days. The crews also help a man with a lung condition who uses his own source of oxygen, but the canister is in another room and he's too weak to reach it; a young woman with terminal cancer who has collapsed and can't get up; a husband who is worried that if his wife goes into hospital, she won't come out again, but her dementia has reached the stage where a visit to hospital is unavoidable; and a man with low blood oxygen levels who needs the paramedics' help just to breathe.
The documentary following the paramedics of West Midlands Ambulance Service returns. On the way back to base, one team is flagged down by police officers dealing with a man who has overdosed on drugs. They are also called out to a woman with gynaecological problems, who is losing a lot of blood and needs to go to hospital, and a man who has a condition where his throat swells up and closes without warning.
The series that follows a typical 12-hour shift with the paramedics of West Midlands Ambulance Service. Filmed during the autumn months as hospital waiting times rocketed and the pressures on the service increased, the series lays bare what life is really like on the front line at three ambulance hubs: Stoke, Stafford and Willenhall in the Black Country.