Casualty 24/7 (2018)
The doors of Barnsley Accident and Emergency department are open every day. An exclusive look into what is really going on in the hearts and minds of the medical emergency teams and how they deal with the critically ill.
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The waiting room in Barnsley Casualty is overflowing today: Resus is crowded and there are no spare beds in the hospital. Sister Jane, who’s running the hub, will have to juggle patients to make room for new emergencies.
Patients include 87-year-old Ralph, who is struggling to breathe, Sallie, an 83-year-old rushed in after having a fall, and Karina who's dislocated her shoulder for the fifth time.
During a busy shift in Resus, a 58-year-old woman arrives by ambulance with a dangerously fast heart rate, and another patient arrives following a suspected drug overdose.
The IT systems have failed, causing chaos, but Casualty still need to treat a motorcycle courier who's had a head-on collision, and a man with severe abdominal pains.
Paramedics bring in a woman who has an incurable lung disease known as COPD and is struggling to breathe. Eighty-year-old Michael has walked in after he fell running for a bus and banged his head and goes to the top of Dr Chris Yeoman's list.
The doors of Barnsley Accident and Emergency department are open every day. An exclusive look into what is really going on in the hearts and minds of the medical emergency teams and how they deal with the critically ill.