Saturday Night Stabbing It’s a crazy Saturday night at St. Vincent’s and Emergency staff are inundated. Professor Gordian Fulde and Nurse Carolyn Milton face another challenge with a young man who has been stabbed at a party in an affluent Sydney suburb. Still flying high on a cocktail of drugs and booze, he thinks he’s just been punched in the guts – but the reality of his injury is far more serious.
Gordian’s Concerns St. Vincent’s Head of Emergency, Professor Gordian Fulde, reflects on the vicious nature of violent assaults that are becoming far too common in Kings Cross.
Motorbike Fall Dr Kate Sellors is forced to perform life-saving surgery in the trauma bay when a 55 year-old man is brought in with a collapsed lung and cracked ribs after falling off his motorbike. Used to being a ‘jack of all trades’, it’s tricky procedures like these that fuel Kate’s love of emergency medicine.
Compound Fracture Nurse Catherine Prothero and Dr. Ziad Basyouny deal with a happy drunk who fell down a gutter after a rowdy day at the pub with his brother. With a bone protruding from his ankle, it’s a painful injury, but the 63 year old is anaesthetized enough by the alcohol to take it all in his stride.
Toothless Tiger Dr. Luis Winoto and Nurse Rachel MacFarlane treat a boozed up country lad who has face planted at a strip joint on his first trip to Kings Cross. Trauma dentist Dr. Foltyn works fast to restore the patient’s winning smile.
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