Paramedic calls: Sepsis Sunday
29 November 2016
Alex shares calls from his weekend shifts, including several patients with sepsis. Read more…
Faculty:Health, Medicine and Social Care
School:School of Allied Health and Social Care
Course: BSc (Hons) Paramedic Science
Hello all! My name is Alex. I am a 19-year-old student paramedic with the London Ambulance Service, studying BSc (Hons) Paramedic Science at Anglia Ruskin University. I am a second year student at ARU’s Chelmsford campus and have my frontline ambulance placement in central London. I live in the city centre with fellow students in my cohort and my parents live in Brighton and Swansea. I am very active here at Anglia Ruskin; I am in the Chelmsford Men’s Badminton Team for the university and we regularly have fixtures both at home and away. Outside of university I am a volunteer photographer and speaker for London’s Air Ambulance, further supported by my interest in portraiture and street photography with cinematic film production.
You're interested in:
No filters selected
29 November 2016
Alex shares calls from his weekend shifts, including several patients with sepsis. Read more…
24 November 2016
Working a busy night shift with his paramedic mentor and her emergency ambulance crewmate, Alex gets to cannulate two patients. Read more…
18 November 2016
Alex talks about practising the advanced clinical skills paramedics are able to do, and the case study he is writing about a patient with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. Read more…
16 November 2016
Alex describes working at ARU Open Days, where his next placement will be and his volunteering for London's Air Ambulance. Read more…
20 October 2016
Alex sees his paramedic mentors on TV, starring in the BBC's "Ambulance". Read more…
12 July 2016
Alex describes a call on his final week of first year placement - to a baby that might have suffered a cardiac arrest. Read more…
5 July 2016
Alex describes the exhausting recent shifts his ambulance has attended, with an abusive hypoglycaemic patient and a stab wound victim. Read more…
27 June 2016
Alex shares his "big sick" calls from this week, including a stabbing and someone fallen from a building in a construction site. Read more…
20 June 2016
Alex's ambulance crew gets rescued by the fire brigade and they attend an attempted suicide/murder. Read more…
8 June 2016
A nasty neighbour causing a fall, a man wanting an ambulance for a ring stuck on his finger, a cardiac arrest transfer and a hospital security escort needed for an intoxicated patient kicked off Alex's return to placement. Read more…