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Ambulance Day - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #15

2017-12-02 · Vlog or day in the life · Ali · recording, 4:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Medicine and his doctor years (also: Relationships and personal life) · mode: Demonstration and walkthrough

On the second day of his final-year emergency medicine placement Ali spends a 12-hour shift with an East of England Ambulance crew around Norfolk, sees patients with trauma, an overdose, a stroke and pneumonia, praises the two paramedics, and ends the day with a friend's curry and Stranger Things in the doctors' mess.

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The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Ambulance day: the second day of the emergency medicine placement, a 12-hour shift with the crew

  • ★★ On the second day of his emergency medicine placement, after a day in A&E, Ali is timetabled to go out with the ambulance crew for a 12-hour shift starting around 8am. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali says it has been really cool zooming down the roads at 70 to 80 miles per hour with the blue lights on, watching the cars make way. — 00:00:00

00:00:24 — End of the shift: the patients seen, a look through the ambulance's kit, the final patient

  • ★★ Near the end of the ambulance shift Ali says they have seen many patients, among them minor trauma with fractures of the spine and pelvis, an overdose and a stroke. — 00:00:24
  • ★ Ali looks through the ambulance's kit: dressings, infusions, anti-nerve agents and splints. — 00:00:53
  • ★★ Ali explains that the ambulance's c-spine equipment immobilises the neck after trauma such as a fall from a building, when the cervical spine may be injured. — 00:00:53
  • ★ The ambulance shift ends with transporting a patient with pneumonia to A&E. — 00:00:53

00:01:28 — Verdict on the day and the two paramedics, Ryan and Dave

  • ★★ Ali says the two paramedics he was with, Ryan and Dave, were amazing: Dave is an ex-Air Force man who became a paramedic about 15 years ago, and Ryan a final-year paramedic student. — 00:01:28
  • ★★ Ali says he would have had no idea what to do with a patient who had taken an overdose, but the paramedic Ryan talked to and comforted her while doing her blood pressure and ECG, which Ali found inspiring. — 00:01:28
  • ★ Ali says the paramedics recommended that the students go up with the air ambulance at some point, apparently a great experience. — 00:01:55

00:02:24 — Music and a guessing game in the evening

00:02:52 — Dinner cooked by Flora, the doctors' mess and Stranger Things, sign-off

  • ★★ After the ambulance shift Ali's group had dinner cooked by Flora, a roasted aubergine and vegetable curry: they have started taking turns, one of them cooking each day of the week for the rest. — 00:02:52
  • ★★ Ali says the doctors' mess at the placement hospital is fantastic and much nicer than their rooms, two minutes' walk away, so the group returns at 10pm in pyjamas to watch Stranger Things there. — 00:02:52
  • ★ Ali says more vlogs are coming soon, and more videos about the medicine application process. — 00:03:31

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Only in the description or credits: East of England Ambulance Service · Norfolk · University of Cambridge

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