Great shift yesterday.

I walked into a very busy dept. Consultants were all in a meeting so I asked around the doctors to see if there was anything could do to help. There was. I was soon transporting a potential CVE patient round to the CT scanners taking the resus bag with us in case anything should happen. On my return I walked into an eventful traumatic resuscitation in Resus. There were a lot of clinicians in the roomhelping and I was tasked with managing the airway. The pt had been brought in by the HEMS crew and was intubated. The capnography kit was not working, so we put a new adaptor on and got it back on track. A surgeon arrived to drain a tampoade whilst the ED consultant performed a FAST ultrasound and IDd lots of free fluid in abdo. Unfortunately the pt went into asystole and it was called shortly after.

I was then allocated some patients from majors including a collapse ? Cause with a head inj that I sutured and an Epileptic patient with a head injury before managing some minors patients. A good shift, lots of learning. Managed to discuss all patients in some depth with the consultant before he went on to review them. For me this is one of the best ways to develop my practice/ knowledge. Something we should do more of when working on the road!