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S01:E04 - Episode 4

24 Hours in A&E

Season 1 Episode 4 - Episode 4

2011 · 48 minSubtitles Icon
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In this week’s episode, the Emergency Department is besieged with Saturday night drunks. Alcohol is one of the biggest causes of injury seen by staff at King’s A&E - on an average weekend as many as half the cases can be alcohol-related. 39-year-old Sean has had one too many, tripped over a clothes horse, fallen and broken his neck. The medical team have attached blocks to the sides of his head to stop him from moving his neck and prevent him from paralysing himself, but it’s a struggle to persuade him to leave them there. Andrew, 26, has been arrested after a day of heavy drinking. “To be honest with you I can’t remember too much about it,” he says. The police have brought him to King’s because he’s put his hand through a window and cut it. It takes two officers to hold him still – and, after he refuses to co-operate, three to lead him away to the police van waiting outside. 56-year-old David is a long-term alcoholic who’s collapsed in the street and bashed his head. When he was two, he survived a plane crash that killed his mother. “That may have started it, I don’t know,” he says. He drinks a bottle of brandy in the morning and another in the evening. “Booze has ruined my life,” he adds. “I’ve basically wasted my life.” Sister Claire has seen the consequences of drink. “I’ve looked after somebody that has drunk so much they he’s actually bled to death in front of me.”
Subtitles:English
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