Channel 4′s hospital documentary series continues with an episode which sees King’s medical team deal with a range of challenges from the treatment of a violent criminal to saving the life of a critically-injured father.
In one of the more shocking scenes of the series, staff nurse Graeme is punched and bitten by a prisoner who’s been brought in for treatment. The team are forced to restrain the patient before they can give him the care he needs.
Meanwhile, father-of-two Tony is rushed into King’s by helicopter after being badly hurt in a head-on traffic collision. Tony, who was trapped in his van and had to be cut free, has a dislocated hip and a smash knee while he also can’t feel his right leg. It’s especially difficult for his parents as Tony’s brother Dean died in King’s aged just 17 after passing away from a brain haemorrhage. They now face the prospect of losing another son at the same hospital.
Elsewhere, 85-year old Eric is suffering from on-going stomach problems. He talks about how he and his partner Helen were first together in the 1960s before the relationship ended on bad terms. They then met again by chance thirty years later and have been together ever since.
Finally we meet Jim, whose been having difficulty breathing. He quickly strikes up a friendship with the female staff and muses on what it means to be a gentleman.
24 Hours in A&E continues tonight at 9pm on Channel 4
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